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Paul Celan (/ ˈ s ɛ l æ n /; [1] German: [ˈtseːlaːn]), born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post- World War II era and a poet whose verse has ...
Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in Czernovitz, Romania, to a German-speaking Jewish family. His surname was later spelled Ancel, and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his pen name. In 1938 Celan went to Paris to study medicine, but returned to Romania before the outbreak of World War II.
Paul Celan (born Nov. 23, 1920, Cernăuți, Rom. [now Chernovtsy, Ukraine]—died May 1, 1970, Paris, Fr.) was a poet who, though he never lived in Germany, gave its post-World War II literature one of its most powerful and regenerative voices.
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Paul Celan was a Romanian-born, German-language poet whose work remains essential for its unrelenting engagement with themes of loss, language, and memory in the wake of the Holocaust.
He is regarded as one of the most important poets to emerge from post-World War II Europe. Paul Celan - Paul Antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Celan, was born in Czernovitz (now, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) on November 23, 1920.
Nov 23, 2020 · Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100. Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century.
Nov 16, 2020 · How Paul Celan Reconceived Language for a Post-Holocaust World. His poems, now translated into English in their entirety, are an invitation to a new kind of reading. By Ruth Franklin....
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