Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna to a wealthy
Austrian-Jewish family. Recognition as a writer came early for
Zweig; by the age of forty, he had already won literary fame. In
1934, with Nazism entrenched, Zweig left Austria for England, and
became a British citizen in 1940. In 1941 he and his second wife
went to Brazil, where they committed suicide. Zweig's best-known
works of fiction are Beware of Pity (1939) and Chess (1942), but
his most outstanding accomplishments were his many biographies,
which were based on psychological interpretation.
Jonathan Katz is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and is the
University's Public Orator. He is the translator of Six Stories by
Stefan Zweig (Penguin, 2023) as well as works by Goethe, Theodor
Storm and Joseph Roth.
One of the masters of the short story.
*Guardian*
They have an astringency of outlook and a mastery of scale that I
find enormously enjoyable.
*Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes*
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