Ruth Klüger
1931
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2020
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America, Austria
educated at: University of California, Berkeley
occupation: writer, university teacher, literary critic, literary scholar, Germanist, man of letters
award received: Austrian National Award for Literary Criticism, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize, Thomas Mann Prize, Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Theodor Kramer prize, Goethe Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, prix Mémoire de la Shoah, Rauriser Literaturpreis, Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik, Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie, honorary doctor of the University of Göttingen, Ehrenmedaille der Stadt Göttingen, State Award of Lower Saxony, Ehrengabe der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft
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Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 5 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller weiter leben: Eine Jugend (English translation by the author: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered) about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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