Paul Celan

Paul Celan (1920–1970), born Paul Antschel in Cernăuți, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), was a German-speaking Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1955. His most notable works include the poem \"Todesfuge\" (Death Fugue) and collections such as Mohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory, 1952) and Atemwende (Breathturn, 1967); he received major awards including the Bremen Literature Prize (1958) and Georg Büchner Prize (1960).