Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel · Arts & Literature
Austrian novelist and poet ('The Forty Days of Musa Dagh')
1890, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1945, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Austria-Hungary · Austria · France · United States
Franz Werfel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Austrian novelist and poet ('The Forty Days of Musa Dagh')
Werfel was a novelist, poet and playwright best known for 'The Forty Days of Musa Dagh', which dramatised the Armenian genocide, and 'The Song of Bernadette', written in gratitude after his escape from Nazi-occupied Europe. Born into a Jewish family in Prague, he fled the Nazis and settled in the United States, remaining a central figure of German-language literature.
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Austrian novelist and poet ('The Forty Days of Musa Dagh')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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