Paul Celan
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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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Paul Celan wrote poetry that manages to be lyrical while sometimes skirting the edges of comprehensibility. His parents died in one of the Nazi death camps, not certain it was Auschwitz. He himself jumped into the river Seine in Paris in 1970, aged 49. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Celan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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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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