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The Banat Action Group
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The Banat Action Group was a group of German-speaking writers that Müller had joined in her younger days. They opposed Romanian leader Ceaucescu's dictatorship and fought for freedom of speech and lack of censorship. This experience proved to be very influential for Müller, as evidenced in her controversial writings based on harsh life under Ceaucescu's regime. She was criticised by the Romanian press, and later on even banned from publishing her work in her own country for speaking out against the dictatorship.
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In an article by the BBC, it is also mentioned that Müller's 1996 award-winning novel, The Land of Green Plums, was written after the deaths of two of her friends. She suspected that the Romanian secret police were involved in the fatalities. Müller also stated that she felt it was her duty to write the story and reveal these happenings "in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceausescu regime". According to the article, "she based a central character on one of her closest friends from the Aktionsgruppe Banat. After Mueller moved to Berlin she told the Guardian newspaper her friend visited her and admitted she had been sent by the secret police to warn her to stop criticising the Ceausescu regime. She also said the friend made a copy of the keys to her apartment, to give to the Securitate."
(ref: http://www.mizozo.com/arts/10/2009/08/herta-m-ller-wins-the-nobel-prize-of-literature.html)
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