Edgar Hilsenrath
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| Edgar Hilsenrath | |
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 Hilsenrath signing books at his 80th birthday celebration (Berlin 2006) |
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| Born | April 2, 1926 Leipzig, Saxony, Germany |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable award(s) | State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia, Alfred Döblin Prize, Heinz Galinski Prize, Hans Erich Nossack Prize, Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize, Hans Sahl Prize, Lion Feuchtwanger Prize |
Edgar Hilsenrath (b. 1926) is a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber and The Fairytale of the Last Thought. Hilsenrath has received many prizes for his works.
For his novel The Fairytale of the Last Thought on the Armenian Genocide Hilsenrath received the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from the president.
[edit] Works
Night describes life and survival in a Jewish ghetto in the Ukraine. In the grotesque novel The Nazi & The Barber published in 1971 in the U.S., a German SS mass murderer, who later assumes a Jewish identity and escapes to Israel, reports about the cruelties committed by him.
[edit] External Links
- Edgar Hilsenrath's homepage (German)
- Bestselling German-Jewish Author Satirizes the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle, April 9, 2006
- Armenian article with photograph of Edgar Hilsenrath receiving the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from the president, Robert Kocharyan
