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Nelly Sachs

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Nelly Sachs zäks , 1891-1970, German poet and translator who lived after 1940 in Sweden. Sachs describes her own experiences and the sufferings of the European Jews in the collections In den Wohnungen des Todes [in the apartments of death] (1947), Das Leiden Israels [Israel's suffering] (1969), and Die Suchende (1966; tr. The Seeker and Other Poems, 1970). The selection of her poems in English, O the Chimneys (1967), incorporates the verse mystery play Eli (written 1943-44; publ. 1951). Sachs shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with S. Y. Agnon.

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