biography
pronunciation:
[shmit]
| biography:
| Writer, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He was a soldier and prisoner of war in World War 2, becoming a freelance writer in 1947. His early writing was influenced by Expressionism, but his linguistic virtuosity and his continual experimentation with language and style made him unique. His prolific writing contained autobiographical elements and often focused on contemporary themes, as in the trilogy Nobodaddy's Kinder (1963). He also wrote a series of literary essays, and translated William Faulkner, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wilkie Collins. |
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