Stefan Zweig

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born

November 28, 1881

died

February 22, 1942

gender

male

place of birth

Vienna, Austria

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoyed literary fame.
His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in bed in an apparent double suicide.

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avg rating: 4.17 | 2,042 ratings | 239 reviews | 201 distinct works | 29 fans

	Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.27 — 301 ratings — published 1942 32 editions	my rating:
	Beware of Pity (New York Review Books Classics) by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.15 — 131 ratings — published 1961 24 editions	my rating:
	Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.19 — 111 ratings — published 1984 15 editions	my rating:
	The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.25 — 107 ratings — published 1964 18 editions	my rating:
	Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator) avg rating 4.21 — 95 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.13 — 94 ratings — published 1999 3 editions	my rating:
	Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.41 — 74 ratings — published 1999 2 editions	my rating:
	La Confusion des sentiments by Stefan Zweig avg rating 3.97 — 65 ratings — published 1927 8 editions	my rating:
	Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme by Stefan Zweig avg rating 3.96 — 53 ratings — published 1925 16 editions	my rating:
	The Royal Game & Other Stories by Stefan Zweig avg rating 4.48 — 46 ratings — published 1943 3 editions	my rating: