Ruth Klüger

Austrian-born American writer, literature scholar and Holocaust survivor (1931-2020) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 88

Ruth Klüger was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller Weiter leben: Eine Jugend about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps.

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2020Died5 October 20202015Honorary Doctor of the University of ViennaAward2014Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Philipps-Universität MarburgAward2011Theodor Kramer prizeAward2010Medal of Honor of Göttingen CityAward2005Goethe MedalAward2003Honorary Doctor of the University of GöttingenAwardPreis der Stadt Wien für PublizistikAward1999Prize of the Frankfurt AnthologyAwardThomas Mann PrizeAward1998Prix Mémoire de la ShoahAward1997Austrian National Award for Literary CriticismAward1994Marie Luise Kaschnitz PrizeAward1993Lower Saxony State PrizeAwardRauriser LiteraturpreisAward1931Born30 October 1931

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