Herta Müller: How Could I Forgive

”Reconciliation? How can I reconcile with a regime? It’s a huge machine. Each person was the dictatorship itself.” Interview with German-Romanian writer Herta Müller, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. If you only see one interview with her, it must be this one! The Louisiana Literature Festival 2014 closed with this rare pearl of a conversation. The Danish writer and journalist Niels Barfoed interviewed his longstanding friend Herta Müller in front of a breathtaken audience. In the conve