NMLP P-043125 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Land of Green Plums
Herta Müller · Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg · 1994
The German Rowohlt 1994 edition is the true first. For English the census claim holds — the US precedes the UK: Metropolitan Books, New York, November 1996 is the first edition in English, ahead of the first UK edition, Granta Books, London, 1998 (paperback); a Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press issue also appeared in November 1998 and is later. The book took the 1998 International Dublin (IMPAC) Literary Award and Müller's 2009 Nobel drove renewed demand, which is what put both the Rowohlt and the Metropolitan firsts in play.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043125 for "The Land of Green Plums" by Herta Müller (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043125, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).