Paul Celan

Paul Celan
BornPaul Antschel
(1920-11-23)23 November 1920
Cernăuți, Kingdom of Romania
(now Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Died20 April 1970(1970-04-20) (aged 49)
Paris, France
OccupationWriter
LanguageGerman
NationalityRomanian, French
GenrePoetry, translation
Notable works"Todesfuge"
SpouseGisèle Lestrange
PartnerIngeborg Bachmann
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Paul Celan (/ˈsɛlæn/;[1] German: [ˈtseːlaːn]), born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post-World War II era and a poet whose verse has gained an immortal place in the literary pantheon. Celan’s poetry, with its many radical poetic and linguistic innovations, is characterized by a complicated and cryptic style that deviates from poetic conventions.