Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson was born in 1934 in Cammin, in Pomerania, and grew up in Anklam, then in Güstrow. He studied German philology in Rostock, then in Leipzig under Hans Mayer. His first novel having found no publisher, he published a second novel in the West in 1959 and settled in West Berlin; he is nicknamed the poet of the German division. From 1970 to 1983 he published his main work in four volumes. Settled in 1974 in Sheerness, on the Thames estuary, he died there in 1984.

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