Works about exile

1972 novel by Richard Adams

1974 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

thumb|right|300px|Ovid Banished from Rome (1838) by [[J. M. W. Turner]]

letter collection by Ovid

German (, exile literature) is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.

painting by Sir William Allan

novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1969 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1960 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline