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BERLIN (Reuters) – The 2009 Nobel laureate for literature, Herta Mueller, said Thursday she had been compelled to write about how dictators are able to dominate a country by her life growing up in communist Romania. The Swedish Academy paid tribute earlier in the day to Mueller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” when announcing the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.4 million) award. Mueller, a Romanian-born ethnic German, is known for works such as “The Land of Green Plums” which she dedicated to friends killed during Nicolae Ceausescu’s two-decade long Communist rule of Romania, and “The Appointment” in which a Romanian woman sews notes saying “Marry Me” into suits of men bound for Italy. “My writing was always about how a dictatorship arises, how a situation is able to occur where a handful of powerful people dominate a country and the country disappears, and there is only the state left,” Mueller said. “I think l
