Franz Werfel
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- Date of birth
- 1890-08-26
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- 1945-08-26
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- United States
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Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet.
Last modified: 2020-08-13 (revision #21030)
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- Franz Werfel wrote An den Leser
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