Who is older, Herta Müller or H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 Born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German.
 Since the early 1990s she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
 Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century.
 He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
 His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention.
Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel
Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel (The Devil Sits in the Mirror) is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller.
 It was first published in 1991 after Müller's emigration to Germany and is cited in 2010's "History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe", along with "Traveling on One Leg" and "The Land of Green Plums", as drawing attention to her work in the West.
 Titled for a cautionary proverb which Müller's grandmother used to say to her—a warning against a variety of evils including vanity, sexual self-awareness and self-reflection in general, each of which could precede a fall, the book is a collection of essays about writing and literature built around the theme. Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger
Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller.
 Def Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger is a novelization of the script for the film Der Fuchs der Jäger, which was produced alongside of Harry Merkel.
 Def Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger was first published in 1992 and is read as if it were a film, because Herta Müller wholly retains its cinematic character in the piece.
 Happel called the book "emotionless" and "objective". The Land of Green Plums
The Land of Green Plums (German: "Herztier" ) is a novel by Herta Müller, published in 1994 by Rowohlt Verlag.
 Perhaps Müller's best-known work, the story portrays four young people living in a totalitarian police state under the Soviet-imposed communist dictatorship in Romania, ending with their emigration to Germany.
 The narrator is an unidentified young woman belonging to the ethnic German minority.
 Müller said the novel was written "in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceauşescu regime". Nadirs (autobiography)
Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical short stories by Romanian-German writer and Nobel laureate Herta Müller.
 The stories center on life in the Romanian countryside and the violent, oppressive atmosphere of Romania in the mid-20th century. The Appointment (novel)
The Appointment (German: "Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet" ) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1997.
 The novel, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009, was published in English by Metropolitan Books and Picador, a Macmillan imprint, in 2001.
 The novel portrays the humiliations of Communist Romania, told from the perspective of a young woman working as a clothing-factory worker who has been summoned by the secret police.
 She is accused of sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy asking that the recipient marry her to help her get out of the country. Traveling on One Leg
Traveling on One Leg (German: "Reisende auf einem Bein" ) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1989 by Rotbuch Verlag.
 An English translation was made available in 1998. Aspekte-Literaturpreis
The Aspekte-Literaturpreis ("Aspekte" Literature Prize) is awarded annually for the best debut novel written in German, as judged by a panel of writers, critics, and scholars.
 The prize is sponsored by the ZDF television network through its arts program, "Aspekte".
 It is valued at 10,000 Euros.
 Past recipients include Georg Büchner Prize-winner Felicitas Hoppe and Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller. The Passport
The Passport (German: "Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt" ) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1986.
 The German title (literally, "Man is a great pheasant in the world") refers to a saying in Romania.
 The novel, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009, tells the story of a village miller in a German-speaking village in the Banat in Romania, who applies for permission to emigrate to West Germany.
 The novel was published in English by Serpent's Tail in 1989, the first of Müller's novels to be offered in direct translation.