- Edgar Hilsenrath
Infobox Writer
name=Edgar Hilsenrath
awards=State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia, Alfred Döblin Prize, Heinz Galinski Prize, Hans Erich Nossack Prize, Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize, Hans Sahl Prize, Lion Feuchtwanger Prize
caption=Hilsenrath signing books at his 80th birthday celebration (Berlin 2006)
birthdate=birth date and age|1926|04|02
birthplace=Leipzig ,Saxony ,Germany
occupation=NovelistEdgar Hilsenrath (b. 1926) is a German-Jewish writer living in
Berlin . His main works are "Night", "The Nazi and the Barber " and "The Story of the Last Thought ". Hilsenrath has received many prizes for his works.For his novel "
The Story of the Last Thought " on theArmenian Genocide Hilsenrath received the State Award in Literature of theRepublic of Armenia from the president.Works
"Night" describes life and survival in a Jewish ghetto in the
Ukraine . In the grotesque novel "The Nazi and the Barber " published in 1971 in the U.S., a GermanSS mass murderer , who later assumes a Jewish identity and escapes to Israel, reports about the cruelties committed by him.Bibliography
* Edgar Hilsenrath, "The Story of the Last Thought", London: Scribners 1990. (ISBN 0-356-19515-5)
External links
Homepage
* [http://www.edgar-hilsenrath.de/ Edgar Hilsenrath's homepage] (German)
Biographies
* [http://www.mertin-litag.de/authors_htm/Hilsenrath-E.htm Biography] of the [http://www.mertin-litag.de/ Literary Agency Dr. Ray-Güde Mertin] with book presentations and comments.
* [http://www.exil-archiv.de/html/biografien/hilsenrath.htm#eng Biography] at [http://exil-archiv.de exil-archiv.de]Articles
* [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1952836,00.html Bestselling German-Jewish Author Satirizes the Holocaust] , Deutsche Welle, April 9, 2006
* [http://www.azg.am/?lang=AR&num=2006051102 Armenian article with photograph] of Edgar Hilsenrath receiving the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from the president,Robert Kocharyan
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