Ruth Klüger

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Austrian-born American writer, literature scholar and Holocaust survivor (1931-2020)

United States WritersLived 1931 to 2020 · aged 88

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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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2015honorary doctor of the University of Vienna

2014Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Philipps-Universität Marburg

2011Theodor Kramer prize

2010Medal of Honor of Göttingen City

2008Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

2005Goethe Medal

2003Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik

2003honorary doctor of the University of Göttingen

1999Thomas Mann Prize

1999Prize of the Frankfurt Anthology

1998prix Mémoire de la Shoah

1997Austrian National Award for Literary Criticism

1997Honorary Award of the Heinrich Heine Society

1994Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize

1993Rauriser Literaturpreis

1993Lower Saxony State Prize

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Günter KunertAlso won Prize of the Frankfurt Anthology André FrossardAlso won prix Mémoire de la Shoah

Maja HaderlapAlso won Rauriser Literaturpreis

Lars GustafssonAlso won Thomas Mann Prize Walter BruchAlso won Lower Saxony State Prize Hellmut ButterweckAlso won Theodor Kramer prize

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