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Hilsenrath, Edgar

LC control no.n 50034435
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPT3919.H67
Personal name headingHilsenrath, Edgar
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Associated countryGermany United States
LocatedBerlin (Germany) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date1926-04-02
Death date2018-12-20
Place of birthLeipzig (Germany)
Field of activityGerman fiction
AffiliationPEN VS
Profession or occupationWriter
Novelists
Found inHis Night ... 1966.
His Zibulsky, oder, Antenne im Bauch, 1983: t.p. (Edgar Hilsenrath) jkt. (b. 1926 in Leipzig; free-lance writer living in West Berlin; previously lived in the US; member of PEN and VS)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 4, 2018 (Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Holocaust survivor who chronicled the degradations of the ghettos in one novel and dared to turn genocide into satire in another, died Dec. 30 [2018] in Wittlich, Germany. He was 92. Edgar Hilsenrath was born in Leipzig on April 2, 1926. Mr. Hilsenrath moved to New York in 1951 and returned to Germany in 1975)
Associated languageger