Mainz (Germany), Jan 12 -Herta Mueller, winner of the latest Nobel Prize for Literature, called on Germany Monday to find and prosecute former agents of Romania's Securitate communist secret police.

In remarks to ARD public television to be aired Monday evening, the Romanian-born, German-language novelist said large numbers of ex-agents had resettled in Germany after communism ended in Romania 20 years ago.

Frankfurt  - Herta Mueller, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, wept Wednesday as she remembered a fellow ethnic German poet from Romania who collaborated with her on her latest book.

Mueller was picked last week for the prize for a body of books which deal with oppression and suffering under communism in Romania. Her latest book describes the ordeal of a 17-year-old German boy dragged off by the Soviets in 1945 to a famine-ridden camp.

The account is largely based on the notes of Oskar Pastior, who, before his sudden death in 2006, took Mueller on a visit to the ruins of the gulag where he was incarcerated in Ukraine.

Berlin  - Herta Mueller, 56, the Romanian-born German writer, told reporters Thursday she was still having trouble getting used to the notion that she has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

At a crowded Berlin news conference, Mueller revealed that she had gone into hiding in her home in the German capital, refusing to answer reporters' rings of the doorbell or the telephone, after receiving the phone call from Stockholm telling her she had won.

Bucharest - German-Romanian author Herta Mueller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, was congratulated by Romanian literary compatriots on Thursday.

"To me, Herta Mueller has long been a Nobel Prize winner. So I can only be happy that my premonition has been officially confirmed," said Andrei Plesu, a Romanian philosopher and art historian.