Albert Cohen
Albert Cohen · Arts & Literature
French-language novelist of Corfiot Jewish origin, author of the acclaimed novel Belle du Seigneur.
1895, Corfu, Greece — 1981, Geneva, Switzerland
Greece · France · Switzerland
Albert Cohen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — French-language novelist of Corfiot Jewish origin, author of the acclaimed novel Belle du Seigneur.
Albert Cohen was a French-language novelist of Corfiot Jewish origin, best known for Belle du Seigneur (1968), a landmark of twentieth-century French literature. His work drew on his Sephardic Jewish heritage and the experience of exile. He was born into a Jewish family on the island of Corfu and later worked for international organizations in Geneva.
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French-language novelist of Corfiot Jewish origin, author of the acclaimed novel Belle du Seigneur.
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