Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs, (
1891,
Berlin -
1970,
Stockholm) was a
German poet and
dramatist who was transformed by the
Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow
Jews. In 1940 she fled to
Sweden. She was a friend of
Selma Lagerlöf. When, with
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, she was awarded the
1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, she observed that Agnon represented
Israel whereas "I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people."
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