ABOUT THE WORK Nobel laureate Herta Müller crystalizes her passion for the unconventional arrangement of words in the form of beautiful, poetic collages. Carefully selected words are arranged into visual poems that are light and humorous yet heavy and thought provoking at the same time – and always accompanied by an illustration. The compositions reveal a side of Müller previously unknown to the public. In her novels, the writer from the Romanian part of the Banat region addresses life under a dictatorship, repression, alienation, and fear. In her collages, by contrast, she allows