Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian writer, 1890-1945
"Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. In April 1924, ""Verdi – Roman der Oper"" (""Novel of the Opera"") was published by Zsolnay Verlag, establishing Werfel's reputation as a novelist. He is primarily known as the author of ""The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and ""The Song of Bernadette"" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name."
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