AFP Martin Walser in 2016
NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 22:30
German writer Martin Walser has died at the age of 96. This is confirmed by his publisher Rowohlt Verlag after reporting in German media. Walser was considered one of Germany’s most important contemporary writers.
One of his most famous works is the novella A fleeing horse from 1978, which was critically acclaimed and made into a film. Walser received numerous awards, including the Hermann Hesse Prize in 1957, the Georg Büchner Prize in 1981 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1998. The dream book out.
In a letter of condolence to Walser’s widow, President Steinmeier describes Walser as “a great human being and a world-class writer”. Steinmeier calls his work an “example of historically conscious, committed poetry in German post-war literature”.
Poetry as a twelve year old
Walser was born in 1927 in Wasserburg am Bodensee in southern Germany, the son of a Catholic innkeeper. Until the end of his life he lived in Überlingen, about 50 kilometers away.
He is said to have written his first poems when he was only twelve years old. After the Second World War he studied literature, philosophy and history. Walser had been married to his wife Käthe since 1950, with whom he had four daughters.
2023-07-28 20:30:18
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