Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs, poet and playwright, was born in Berlin in 1891. Her first poems were published in 1929. In May 1940 she and her mother, as secular Jews, fled to Sweden, where she was granted nationality in 1952. Her correspondence with Paul Celan began in 1954. In 1966 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 1970.