Franz Werfel date of birth:
September 10, 1890
How old was Franz Werfel when died?
54
Where was Franz Werfel born?
Prague
When did Franz Werfel die?
August 26, 1945
What is Franz Werfel nationality?
American
What is Franz Werfel's occupation?
Novelist, playwright and poet
Short Biography
Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. 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.