Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009?
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Herta Mueller
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Dan Brown
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William Nanda Bissell
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Thomas R.Trautmann
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Explanation
Herta Müller, a German-Romanian author, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature for works that with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose depict the landscape of the dispossessed. Her writing reflects experiences under the Ceausescu regime in Romania and explores themes of oppression, exile, and memory. Dan Brown, William Bissell, and Thomas Trautmann are authors but not Nobel laureates.