Lore Segal

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Lore Segal (born as Lore Groszmann March 9, 1928 in Vienna ) is an American literary scholar , professor and author .

Life

Lore Groszmann was one of those children who traveled to Great Britain between December 1938 and September 1, 1939 and thus escaped the extermination of the Jews in Europe conquered by Germany. The term “ Kindertransport ” is also associated with this relief operation in English.

Groszmann studied at Bedford College at the University of London , where she graduated in English literature in 1948 . In 1951 she immigrated to New York in the USA after a stopover in the Dominican Republic . From then on, their family language was English. She worked as a secretary and began writing stories. In 1961 she married David Segal, who worked as an editor at Verlag Knopf, and they have two children.

1968 to 1978 Lore Segal was professor of English at Columbia University , later in Princeton , at Sarah Lawrence College and at Ohio State University , where she retired in 1996.

Segal also worked as a writer, commentator, translator, and writer of children's books. She received the Guggenheim Prize. Her reviews were published in the New York Times ; her essays in the New Yorker . Her story The Rervese Bug was one of the "Best American Short Stories" and was awarded the Prize Stories 1990 - The O. Henry Award in 1989.

Segal starred alongside her mother Franzi Groszmann in the 2000 film by Mark Jonathan Harris Kindertransport - Into a Foreign World , which was awarded the Oscar 2000 for best documentary. Her mother Franzi Groszmann was the last survivor of the parents behind the Kindertransport; she died in Manhattan in 2005 at the age of 100 .

Her work Shakespeare's Kitchen from 2007, was in 2008 in the category Fiction of the Pulitzer Prize nominated.

Honors

In 1988 Segal starred in the film Crossing Delancey ; the film was awarded a Golden Globe . In 1996 Segal starred in the documentary My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports . The film was awarded a prize at the Sundance Film Festival .

In 2006 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2018 she received the Theodor Kramer Prize for writing in the resistance and in exile .

Works (selection)

  • Other People's Houses (1964)
    • Where other people live . Translation by Sabine Illmer. Autobiography 1938–1945. Picus, Vienna 2003 ISBN 3-426-62089-8
  • Lucinella (1976)
  • Her first American (1985)
    • Your first american . Translation of Inge Leipold. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1996 ISBN 3-596-12834-X
  • Shakespeare's Kitchen (2007)
  • Half The Kingdom (2013)

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personal data
SURNAME Segal, lore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria