Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig · Arts & Literature
Austrian novelist and biographer ('The World of Yesterday', 'Chess Story')
1881, Vienna, Austria — 1942, Petrópolis, Brazil
Austria · United Kingdom · Brazil
Stefan Zweig is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Austrian novelist and biographer ('The World of Yesterday', 'Chess Story')
Zweig was an Austrian novelist, biographer and essayist, among the most widely translated authors of his era, known for psychologically acute novellas ('Chess Story'), biographies, and the memoir 'The World of Yesterday', an elegy for pre-war European culture. Driven into exile by Nazism, he took his own life in Brazil. He was Jewish.
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Austrian novelist and biographer ('The World of Yesterday', 'Chess Story')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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