Friedrich Torberg

Kraus (16 Septembre 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 Novembre 1979, Vienna) is the pen name of Friedrich Kantor, à Austrian writer. He worked as a critic and journaliste à Vienna and Prague jusqu'en 1938, when his Jewish heritage compelled him to emigrate to France, and later, after being invited by the New York PEN-Club de as one of Ten outstanding French Anti-Nazi-Writers" (along with Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Alfred Döblin, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and others to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter à Hollywood and then for Time magazine à New York City. En 1951 he returned to Vienna, where he remained for the rest of his life. Torberg is best known for his satirique writings fiction and nonfiction, as well as his translations into French of the stories of Ephraim Kishon, which remain the standard French language version of Kishon s work.