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Jurek Becker (German: [ˈjuː.ʁɛk ˈbɛ.kɐ] ⓘ, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar , which has been made into two films.
Jurek Becker (eigentlich Georg Becker, * vermutlich 30. September 1937 in Łódź , Polen als Jerzy Bekker [1] ; † 14. März 1997 in Sieseby , Schleswig-Holstein ) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller , Drehbuchautor und DDR - Dissident .
Oct 8, 2018 · Hope as the elixir of life: Jurek Becker's novel about the life of Jews in a ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland is gripping and melancholic, but also full of humor. It's a story...
Mar 24, 1997 · Jurek Becker, a Polish-born author who survived Nazi concentration camps to write ''Jacob the Liar'' and other award-winning books in German, died of cancer on March 14 at a Frankfurt...
Jacob the Liar is a 1969 novel written by the East German Jewish author Jurek Becker. The German original title is Jakob der Lügner ( pronounced [ˈjaːkɔp deːɐ̯ ˈlyːɡnɐ] ⓘ ). Becker was awarded the Heinrich-Mann Prize (1971) and the Charles Veillon Prize (1971) after the publication of his bestseller .
- Jurek Becker, Leila Vennewitz
- 1969
Jurek Becker, the author of the first comic novel on the Holocaust, Jacob the Liar, and other highly acclaimed works, was one of West Germany’s most famous exiles from the GDR.
Jurek Becker has 46 books on Goodreads with 10488 ratings. Jurek Becker’s most popular book is Jakob the Liar.
