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Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1955.
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culture · German-language poet of Romanian birth, Holocaust survivor (1920–1970) · poet · lyricist · essayist · translator · literary editor · writer · also Paul Celan, Paul Ancel, Celan
Born 23 November 1920 · Died 20 April 1970 · Q153905
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2026· 3 entries
“David Rokeah was here for two days, I have translated two poems for him, mediocre stuff, and given him comments on other German translation, suggested improvements ... I was glad, probably in the wrong place, to be able to decipher and translate a Hebrew text.”
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“There is nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.”
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2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Paul Celan and Complete Book Reviews
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2021· 2 entries
dw: Kiefer revisits Celan's poetic Holocaust memorial
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The Forward: What would Paul Celan think of Zoombombing?
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2019· 1 entry
Jewish Journal: Digging Deeper on the Poet Paul Celan
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2013· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: “Eye-Voices, a Choir”: New Translations of Paul Celan
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2011· 1 entry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A message in a bottle: encounters with Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger
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2010· 1 entry
The Forward: Paul Celan’s Letters
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1970· 1 entry
Died 1970-04-20.
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1960).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen (1958).
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1953· 2 entries
And their second child, son Éric Celan, was born on 6 June 1955
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Later occasioned four psychotic episodes involving paranoia
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1952· 1 entry
Celan's writing began to gain recognition when he read his poetry on his first reading trip to West Germany where he was invited to read at the semiannual meetings of the hugely influential Group 47 literary group
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1945· 1 entry
For Bucharest, where he remained until 1947
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1939· 1 entry
To study literature and Romance languages
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1938· 1 entry
Celan traveled to Tours, France, to study medicine; the Anschluss precluded his study in Vienna, and Romanian schools were harder to get into due to the newly imposed Jewish quota
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-11-23.
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