Ana Novac
Ana Novac (* 1929 in Dej , Romania ; † March 31, 2010 in Paris ) was a Romanian writer who survived the Shoah as a teenager in various German concentration camps . Since 1965 she lived in Paris.
Life
Born as Zimra Harsányi, she became a Hungarian citizen at the age of 11 through the annexation of Transylvania . In the summer of 1944, at the age of fourteen, she was deported as a Jew to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where she was number A-17587. She kept a diary documenting her imprisonment there, in the Płaszów concentration camp and other camps. It was published in Hungary in 1966 (German: The beautiful days of my youth , 1967) and, as authentic evidence of camp life, forms a literary counterpart to Anne Frank's diary .
In 1945 she returned to Romania, where she experienced her first successes as a playwright in the 1950s. In 1957 she was awarded the Romanian State Prize, but was increasingly targeted by the communist regime . In 1963 she left for Hungary (by marrying a Hungarian journalist), then on to West Berlin, and finally in 1965 to Paris.
Works
- Match a la Une
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Les beaux jours de ma jeunesse. Translated from the Hungarian by Jean Parvulesco. Julliard, Paris 1968; again under the title J'avais quatorze ans à Auschwitz . Presses de la Renaissance, Paris 1982
- New versions, revised by Novac, same title as 1968: Balland, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7158-0956-5 ; ibid. 1997 ISBN 2-7158-1116-0 ; TB Gallimard , Paris 1999, ISBN 2-07-040320-3
- From the Hungarian A péboly hétköznapjoi by Barbara Frischmuth : The beautiful days of my youth. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967
- Translated from the French by Eva Moldenhauer , gl.Title, Schoeffling, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 3-89561-415-7
- Le maître de Trésor . Balland, 2002, ISBN 2-268-04340-1
- Les noces de Varenka . Calmann-Lévy, 1996, ISBN 2-7021-2491-7
- Comme un pays qui ne figure pas sur la carte . Balland, Paris 1992
- Un lit dans l'hexagone
- Si j'etais un bebe-phoque, ou les souvenirs d'un zombie . Les Temps, Modernes, Paris
- Le complexe de la soupe . Ed. L'Avant Scene, Paris
- Cap sur la Lune . Le Meridien Editeur
- Les accidents de l'ame , Balland, Paris
- Le grabat . 1988
- Nocturne ' . 1984
- La Porte . 1985
- Un nu deconcertant . 1970
literature
- Ana Novac: Like a train of risen mummies . Excerpt from N. Diary from Auschwitz. In: Die Zeit , No. 9/2009, p. 32, life
- Biography d'Ana Novac
- Malte Herwig: The Book of Auschwitz . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/2009, pp. 29–33, life; malteherwig.wordpress.com
Web links
- Literature by and about Ana Novac in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sybille Steinbacher : novel of a fateless . Zeit online , February 2009 (Steinbacher compares Novac's book more to Imre Kertész 's novel Unfortunate .)
- Ana Novac. hjs-online, January 13, 2012
References and comments
- ↑ According to documents kept by CNSAS (Romania's National Council for the Analysis of Securitate Documents), she was born on June 21, 1924. ( https://www.rfi.ro/social-57621-o-victima-colaterala )
- ↑ A Girl's Horrifying Experience Resurrected . Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ↑ Horror is when you still laugh ( en ). Accessed June 30, 2020.
- ↑ Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis, Corina L. Petrescu University of Nebraska Press (eds.): Cold War Spy Stories From the Cold War . University of Nebraska Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-64012-187-4 .
- ↑ With “curriculum vitae instead of a foreword”, pp. 5–8, text from 1965. A total of 186 pages. Full page. b / w. Frontispiece with signature.
- ↑ after the revised by Novac himself. French revision including a new foreword from 2008. 320 pages
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Novac, Ana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Novac, Anna (frequent spelling in French) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dej , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 2010 |
| Place of death | Paris |