Helen Fehervary is academy professor of German Studies at the Ohio State University. She has published widely on modern German literature and is the editor of the multi-volume critical, annotated edition of Anna Seghers’s works.

11.19.2020

Helen Fehervary

Anna Seghers, a Writer Who Defended the Wretched of the Earth

Born this day in 1900, Anna Seghers was one of Germany’s great modern writers, an internationalist and anti-fascist through the darkest hours in German history. Her works are a monument to the dignity of the oppressed.

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Anna Seghers, a Writer Who Defended the Wretched of the Earth