12 Facts About Erich Fried

Erich Fried was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator.

Erich Fried initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems.

Erich Fried translated works by different English writers from English into German, most notably works by William Shakespeare.

Erich Fried was born in Vienna, Austria, but fled to England after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.

Erich Fried settled in London and adopted British nationality in 1949.

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Erich Fried arranged for his mother to leave Nazi-occupied Austria, as well as helping many other Jews to come to the UK.

Erich Fried joined Young Austria, a left-wing emigrant youth movement, but left in 1943 in protest of its growing Stalinist tendencies.

Erich Fried translated works by Shakespeare, T S Eliot, and Dylan Thomas.

Erich Fried published several volumes of poetry as well as radio plays and a novel.

Erich Fried's work was sometimes controversial, including attacks on the Zionist movement and support for left-wing causes.

Erich Fried's 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.

Erich Fried died of intestinal cancer in Baden-Baden, West Germany, in 1988 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.