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Erich Fried (6 May, 1921 — November 22, 1988) was an Austrian poet settled in England, known for his political-minded poetry. He was also a broadcaster, translator and essayist. Born to Jewish parents Nelly and Hugo Fried in Vienna, he was a child actor and from an early age wrote strongly political essays and poetry. He fled with his mother to London after his father's murder by the Gestapo following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany. During the war, he got casual work as a librarian and a factory hand. He joined Young Austria, a left-wing emigrant youth movement, but left in 1943 in protest at its dogmatism. In 1944 he married Maria Marburg, shortly before the birth of his son Hans. In the same year his first volume of poetry was published. He separated from Maria in 1946, and they divorced in 1952. In the same year he married Nan Spence Eichner, with whom he'd two children; David (1958) and Katherine (1961). Erich and Nan divorced in 1965. In 1965 he got married for a third time to Catherine Boswell with whom he'd three children; Petra (1965), Klaus and Tom (1969).
   From 1952 to 1968 he worked as a political commentator for the BBC German Service. He translated works by Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas.
   In 1962 he returned to Vienna for the first time.
   He published several volumes of poetry as well as radio plays and a novel. His work was sometimes controversial, including attacks on the Zionist movement and support for left-wing causes. His work was mainly published in the West, but in 1969, a selection of his poetry was published in the GDR poetry series Poesiealbum, and his Dylan Thomas translations were published in that same series in 1974.
   In 1982 he regained his Austrian nationality, though he also retained the British nationality he'd adopted in 1949. He died of intestinal cancer in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1988 and is buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London.
   An Austrian literary prize is named after him - the Erich Fried Prize.

Works

Drei Gebete aus London (Three Prayers from London), 1945
Ein Soldat und ein Mädchen (A Soldier and a Girl), 1960
Reich der Steine, 1963
Warngedichte (Warning Poems), 1964
Überlegungen, 1964
Kinder und Narren, 1965
und Vietnam und (and Vietnam and), 1966
Anfechtungen, 1967
Die Beine der größeren Lügen, 1969
Poesiealbum, 1969
Unter Nebenfeinden, 1970
Die Freiheit den Mund aufzumachen, 1972
Höre Israel, 1974
So kam ich unter die Deutschen, 1977
100 Gedichte ohne Vaterland, 1978
Liebesgedichte, 1979
Es ist was es ist (It is what it is), 1983
Um Klarheit, 1985
Mitunter sogar Lachen, 1986

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