The poet Nelly Sachs may be best remembered as the co-recipient (with S. Y. Agnon of Israel) of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Although a German native born in Berlin in 1891, she lived in Sweden, where she found asylum with her mother as a refugee from the Holocaust, beginning in 1940, until her death in 1970. She began writing poetry at a young age; however, she did not begin publishing her works in earnest until after the Second World War. Her volumes of poetry include
In den Wohnungen des Todes[
In the Habitations of Death, 1947],
Sternverdunkelung[
Eclipse of the Stars, 1949],
Und niemand weiss weiter[
And No One Knows How to Go On, 1957], and
Flucht und Verwandlung[
Flight and Metamorphosis, 1959]. Sachs' collected poems can be found in
Fahrt ins Staublose[
Journey into a1958 words
Citation: Strawser, Amy Kepple. "Nelly Sachs". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 September 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5458, accessed 26 April 2024.]
