16 Facts About Hilde Domin

Hilde Domin is the pseudonym of Hilde Palm, a German lyric poet and writer.

Hilde Domin was among the most important German-language poets of her time.

Hilde Domin initially studied law, and later specialized in economics, social sciences and philosophy.

Hilde Domin received a doctorate in political science in Florence in 1935 and worked as a language teacher in Rome from 1935 to 1939.

In Santo Domingo, where they lived for 12 years, Hilde worked as a translator and lecturer at the University of Santo Domingo, and as a photographer of architecture.

Hilde Domin often worked together with other European exiles, such as Austrian photographer Kurt Schnitzer.

In November 2006, Hilde was awarded the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella in recognition of her efforts to advance Dominican culture.

Mourning her mother, and a miscarriage, Hilde began to write during her last years in Santo Domingo, choosing a pseudonym, Hilde Domin, that reflected her gratitude to the island which had offered her shelter.

Hilde Domin lived as a writer in Heidelberg from 1961 until her death.

Hilde Domin was a close friend of Nelly Sachs, her lyric colleague living in Stockholm, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.

Hilde Domin's poems are rarely metaphorical, completely unpathetic and of a simple vocabulary that in its simplicity meets magic.

Hilde Domin's writings have been recognized as evocative, appealing and easily accessible to a wide range of readers.

Hilde Domin was a translator, bringing selected works by lyric poets including Denise Levertov and Giuseppe Ungaretti to German language readers.

Hilde Domin continued to read her poems to audiences until 2006.

Hilde Domin died in Heidelberg, a "grande dame" of German verse, aged 96, on February 22,2006.

Hilde Domin's work has been translated into more than 21 languages.