WOMEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS NELLY SACHS

Nobel prizes for women 

    

Nelly Sachs, she was born on the 10th of December in 1891 and she died on the 12th of May 1970.

She was aJewish German poet and playwright, whose experiences resulted from the rise of the Nazis in World War II.

In 1940 she left her native country to move to live in Sweden. Her later writings profoundly Jewish theme is lyrically inspired by the tragedies of Jewish history. Her Oh, fireplaces includes verse play Eli, written in 1943 and premiered on German radio in 1958.

 Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels, other works include the poems Zeichen im Sand and Verzauberung.

In 1966 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

These are some of her Works:

Before it grows, I hear Isaiah

Everywhere, Jerusalem

Lovers are sheltered

Choir of Dildos

Correspondence

The end of the search

Late poems

The sufferings of Israel

Burning puzzle

Signs in the aren

Travel in the region without dust

Flight and metamorphosis

In 1947 appeared in East Berlin, his first book of poems: In the abodes of death, dedicated to his brothers and sister disappeared in the Nazi death camps.

By: Valeria and Marcela, 3ºA