Erich Fried

✶May 6, 1921

†November 22, 1988

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

Erich Fried was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer, he mostly wrote plays and short novels. He also translated works by different English writers from English into German, most notably works by William Shakespeare.

Austrian writer (1921–1988)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Erich Fried on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.