Romanian-born Mueller receives $1.4m as part of the prize [AFP]

Mueller, who has written extensively about conditions under the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, the former Romanian leader, was recognised for her ability to depict "the landscape of the dispossessed".

Her work regularly criticised Ceausescu's government during the 1980s and she was often prevented from publishing in her own nation.

In 1987 she emigrated to Germany with Richard Wagner, her husband who is also an author.

The novelist, essayist and poet, who will receive $1.4m as part of the award, was also praised for writing with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose".

Born in 1953, to a family from Romania's German minority, Mueller worked as a translator in a machine factory in the late 1970s.

She was dismissed when she refused to work as an informant for the Romanian secret police.

Mueller's mother spent five years in a Soviet Union work camp after being sent there from Romania.

In her 2009 book Atemschaukel, Mueller portrayed the condition of German Romanians deported to the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

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