Elisabeth Borchers
Elisabeth Borchers | |
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Born | 27 February 1926 |
Died | 25 September 2013 Frankfurt am Main | (aged 87)
Elisabeth Borchers (27 February 1926 – 25 September 2013) was a German writer and poet.
Life[]
Borchers was born in Homberg in 1926 and lived during World War II in Alsace. She wrote fiction and poetry and plays. She also wrote for children and translated from French.[1]
Her novel Gedichte (Poems) won the Roswitha von Gandersheim Medal in 1976, an award made to outstanding women writers in German. She worked for publishers until 1998[1] where she helped the eventual nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska.[2]
Borchers died in Frankfurt am Main in 2013.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Elizabeth Borchers Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, Anvil poetry, retrieved 5 April 2014
- ^ Jump up to: a b Elizabeth Borchers is dead, Spiegel, 27 November 2013, retrieved 5 April 2014
Categories:
- 1926 births
- 2013 deaths
- People from Duisburg
- German women poets
- 20th-century German poets
- 20th-century German women writers
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- German writer stubs