Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada was the pen name of Rudolf Ditzen, born in 1893 in Greifswald, Germany, the son of a magistrate who later became a supreme court judge; in 1899 the family moved to Berlin. He took his pen name from two stories by the Brothers Grimm. As a young man he had serious troubles, including injuries in an accident, mental illness and, for much of his life, addiction, and he spent periods in clinics and prison. He worked on farms and estates, which gave him material for his books. His novel Little Man, What Now? (1932), about a young couple struggling during the economic crisis, was an international success. He remained in Germany under the Nazis, writing books that avoided politics, and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and 1939. After the war he wrote Every Man Dies Alone, published in English as Alone in Berlin, based on the true story of a working-class couple who left anonymous postcards around Berlin protesting against Hitler. He died in Berlin in 1947, just before it was published.

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