biography
| name: |
Nossack, Hans Erich
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pronunciation:
[nosak]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1901–77)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hamburg, N Germany. The son of a wealthy coffee importer, he was forbidden to publish in 1933, then joined his father's business and lost all his manuscripts in a fire in 1943. He began to write full-time again in 1956 and published novels, plays, and poetry. Influenced by Albert Camus and Existentialism, his work is concerned with survival after the catastrophe, and the desolation and isolation of the individual, as in Interview mit dem Tode (1948), Spätestens in November (1955), Spirale (1959), and Dem Unbekannten Sieger (1969). He was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1961. |
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