Hans Fallada (Author)
Hans Fallada (1893-1947) was the pen name of German author Rudolf
Ditzen, whose books were international bestsellers on a par with
those of his countrymen Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. He opted to
stay in Germany when the Nazis came to power, and eventually had a
nervous breakdown when he was put under pressure to write
anti-Semitic books. He was cast into a Nazi insane asylum, where he
secretly wrote The Drinker. Immediately after the war he wrote his
last two novels, The Nightmare and Alone in Berlin, but he died
before either book could be published.
Alexandra Roesch (Translator)
Alexandra Roesch is a bicultural, bilingual freelance translator
based in Frankfurt, Germany. An experienced translator of fiction
and nonfiction, she has an MA in translation from the University of
Bristol and was longlisted for the 2018 Helen & Kurt Wolff
Translator's Prize.
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