Jakov Lind

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Jakov Lind (born February 10, 1927 in Vienna, died February 16, 2007 in London) was a British writer. As an eleven-year old boy from a Jewish family, he left Austria after the Anschluss, found temporary refuge in Holland, and succeeded in surviving inside Nazi Germany by assuming a Dutch identity. After a literary apprenticeship in Israel, he moved to London, where he wrote, in German, the short stories and novels on which his stature as a major European writer is based: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete, and Ergo. Lind began writing in English and the stories in The Stove were the first written in his new language.

• • Counting My Steps (1969)
  • Writing After Hitler,
  • The Work of Jacov Lind

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[edit] External links

• Jakov Lind web site

• The Guardian obituary