Jorge Semprun has died.

June 10, 2011 3:37 AM

Jorge Semprun, author, resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, has died.
posted by OmieWise (4 comments total)

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posted by flippant at 5:10 AM on June 10, 2011

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posted by Mister Bijou at 6:02 AM on June 10, 2011

Talk about a life lived.

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posted by arcticseal at 7:31 AM on June 10, 2011

"Once, long after the war, a man asked me what I was—French or Spanish, a novelist or a politician? I said, spontaneously, that I was a deportee of Buchenwald." From his Paris Review interview.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 2:37 PM on June 11, 2011