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Elisabeth Borchers

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Elisabeth Borchers
Born27 February 1926
Died25 September 2013(2013-09-25) (aged 87)

Elisabeth Borchers (27 February 1926 – 25 September 2013) was a German writer and poet.

Life

Borchers was born in Homberg in 1926 and was raised in Alsace. She wrote fiction and poetry and plays. She also wrote for children and translated from French.[1]

Her novel Gedichte (Poems) won the Roswitha von Gandersheim Medal in 1976, an award made to outstanding women writers in German. She worked for publishers until 1998[1] where she helped the eventual nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska.[2]

Borchers died in Frankfurt am Main in 2013.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Elizabeth Borchers, Anvil poetry, retrieved 5 April 2014
  2. ^ a b Elizabeth Borchers is dead, Spiegel, 27 November 2013, retrieved 5 April 2014