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Paul Celan was a French-Romanian poet and translator who lived from 1920 to 1970 and is remembered as one of the most significant literary voices of the twentieth century. His work, much of it shaped by his experiences as a Holocaust survivor, explores profound themes of loss, language, and human suffering, making him a crucial figure in post-war European literature.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Chernivtsi
- Place of death
- Paris
- Spouse
- Gisèle Lestrange
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Chernivtsi University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Official website
- www.celan-projekt.de
- Image
- Paul Celan (1938).jpg
- Work location
- Bucharest
- Significant event
- exile
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- Commons category
- Paul Celan
- date of birth
- 1920-11-23
- date of death
- 1970-04-20
- place of burial
- Cimetière parisien de Thiais
- relative
- Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
- manner of death
- Suicide
- birth name
- Paul Antschel
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- name in native language
- Paul Celan
- cause of death
- drowning
- writing language
- Romanian
- unmarried partner
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- subject has role
- Holocaust survivor
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P12674
- Smogorzewo Pańskie
- archives at
- German Literature Archive Marbach
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Celan (/ˈsɛlæn/; German: [ˈtseːlaːn]; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name (an anagram of the Romanian spelling Ancel) following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1955.
Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post-World War II era and a poet whose verse has gained an immortal place in the literary pantheon. Celan's poetry, with its many radical poetic and linguistic innovations, is characterized by a complicated and cryptic style that deviates from poetic conventions.
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