Hans Sahl - World Literary Awards

Profile

Gender: Male
Born: 1902-05-20 （Dresden）
Died: 1993-04-27 （Tübingen） age 90
Nationality: German, American
Languages: German, English
Religion: Judaism
Residence History: Dresden, Germany → Czechoslovakia → Switzerland → France → New York, USA → Germany (returned 1989)

Career

Occupations: poet, critic, novelist, translator
Active Years: 1920-1993
Memberships: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
1962	Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung	—	—	Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung	Member
1982	Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany	—	—	Federal Republic of Germany	受賞
1984	Andreas Gryphius Prize	—	—	—	受賞
1991	Goethe Medal	—	—	—	受賞
1993	Carl Zuckmayer Medal	—	—	—	受賞
1993	Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony	—	—	Free State of Saxony	受賞

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

1962

Organization: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

Result: Member

Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1982

Organization: Federal Republic of Germany

Result: 受賞

Andreas Gryphius Prize

1984

Result: 受賞

Goethe Medal

1991

Result: 受賞

Carl Zuckmayer Medal

1993

Result: 受賞

Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony

1993

Organization: Free State of Saxony

Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Carl Zuckmayer Medal 1 appearances

Edition 13 (1993) Winner

Works

Translations by Author

Translated works of Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams into German

Legacy

Anti-fascist exile writer who began his career during the Weimar Republic. Fled Nazi Germany, lived in New York, and worked as a translator. Returned to Germany in 1989.

Trivia

From an affluent Jewish family.
Interned in France with Walter Benjamin during exile.
Worked with Varian Fry in Marseille to help other exiles.
Became a US citizen in 1952.