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Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Berlin, Germany into a middle-class Jewish family. Her father, William Sachs, was a wealthy manufacturer, and her mother was Margareta Sachs. She was educated at the Berliner Hohere Tochterschule.
Sachs began writing poetry at the age of 17. Her first volume of poetry, 1985, In Den Wohnungen Des Todes (In The Houses Of Death), was published when she was 56. The book Flucht Und Verwandlung, published in 1959, established her reputation as a writer.
CHRONOLOGY
1921 Legenden Und Erzahlungen
1930 Her Father Died.
1940 She Moved To Sweden.
1947 In Den Wohnungen Des Todes (In The Houses Of Death)
1949 Sternverdunklung
1950 Her Mother Died.
1951 Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel Wom Leiden Israels (Eli: A Mystery Play Of The Sufferings Of Isael Israelin Karsimys)
1957 Und Niemand Weiss Weiter
1958 She was awarded The Prize Of The Swedish Poets Association.
1959 Flucht Und Verwandlung
1961 Fahrt Ins Staublose
1962 Zeichen Im Sand
1963 Gluhende Ratsel
1965 Spate Gedichte; She was awarded The Friedenspreis Des Buchhandeis.; she received The Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade.
1966 Die Suchende; she was awarded The Nobel Prize For Literature.
1967 O Die Schornsteine (O The Chimneys)
1970 The Seeker And Other Poems
1971 Teile Dich Nacht; Selected Poems
1984 Briefe De Nelly Sachs
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