| Nadirs | |
| Title Orig: | Niederungen |
| Translator: | Sieglinde Lug |
| Author: | Herta Müller |
| Country: | Romania |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | Short story, autobiography |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press (US) |
| Release Date: | 1982 |
| English Pub Date: | 1999 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 118 p. (paperback edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-0-8032-8254-4 |
| Isbn Note: | (paperback edition) |
Nadirs (de|'''Niederungen'''|links=no|italic=no) is a collection of largely autobiographical short stories by Romanian-German writer and Nobel laureate Herta Müller. The stories center on life in the Romanian countryside.[1]
The book was first released in Romania in 1982, where it received a prize awarded by the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth. A supposedly uncensored version, missing four chapters of the Romanian version, was smuggled to Germany and released in 1984.[2]