Nobel Prize Winner Herta Müller (?)

I just took the 2009 Literature Prize sidebar survey at Nobelprize.org, which asks "Have you read anything by Herta Müller?" The results were 7% YES and 93% NO (I answered NO). I never read anything by last year's winner, J. M. G. Le Clézio, until he won, at which point I read a short story; it was not bad. The Nobel Prize in Literature is usually given to an obscure European, which is fine, but makes it a bit of a charity-lottery for those who write reasonably well about oppression. Nobel laureates receive 10,000,000 Swedish kronor, currently $1,429,247. People passed over for the prize include:

Borges
Chekhov
Joyce
Nabokov
Proust
Tolstoy
Zola

Sarte won the award but refused to accept it. Whatever you think of his prose, he had convictions.