Franz Werfel
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Franz Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian writer who worked across novels, plays, and poetry during the early twentieth century until his death in 1945. He matters as a significant literary figure of his era whose work spanned multiple genres during a transformative period in European culture.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 10 September 1890
- Died
- 26 August 1945
- Works
- 253
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Film & TV
Writing · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
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- Listeners
- 76
- Total plays
- 1,161
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Franz Viktor Werfel ( German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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1890 births1945 deaths20th-century American dramatists and playwrights20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists20th-century American poets20th-century American short story writers20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights20th-century Austrian Jews20th-century Austrian male writers20th-century Austrian novelists