Elisabeth Borchers
Elisabeth Borchers (27 February 1926 – 25 September 2013) was a German writer and poet.
Elisabeth Borchers
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- Name
- Elisabeth Borchers
- Born
- 27 February 1926
- Birthplace
- Homberg
- Died
- 25 September 2013
- Place of death
- Frankfurt am Main
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Elisabeth Borchers (27 February 1926 – 25 September 2013) was a German writer and poet.
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• Name — Elisabeth Borchers • Born — 27 February 1926 • Birthplace — Homberg • Died — 25 September 2013 • Place of death — Frankfurt am Main
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Borchers was born in Homberg in 1926 and lived during World War II in Alsace. She wrote fiction and poetry and plays. She also wrote for children and translated from French. 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 where she helped the eventual Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. Borchers died in Frankfurt am Main in 2013.
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Elisabeth Borchers is recorded with the occupation children's writer. Recorded with the occupation literary editor. Classed in the genre children's literature. Recorded as a citizen of Germany.
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1926
Elisabeth Borchers was born on 27 February 1926.
2013
Elisabeth Borchers died on 25 September 2013.
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Elisabeth Borchers received Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis, Roswitha Prize and Horst Bienek Award for Poetry.
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