Author · Austria
Erich Fried
Died in 1988
Erich Fried (1921-1988), the only son of a Jewish forwarding agent in Vienna and of a graphic artist, saw his father die in May 1938 of the torture suffered during a Gestapo interrogation; he reached London via Belgium at the age of seventeen and lived there until his death. A political commentator for the BBC's German service from 1952 to 1968, he became one of the most widely read political poets in German of the post-war period, translated Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, and died of cancer in Baden-Baden.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelEin Soldat und ein MädchenErich Fried · 1960not translated into EnglishLiterature