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Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian writer (1890–1945)
For other people with the same name, see Werfel.
Franz Viktor Werfel (German:[fʁant͡sˈvɛʁfl̩]ⓘ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemiannovelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
Early life
Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), now the capital of the Czech Republic, Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods, Rudolf Werfel.
His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner. His two sisters were Han