Elisabeth Borchers (27 February 1926 – 25 September 2013) was a German writer and poet.

Life

Borchers was born in Homberg in 1926 and lived during World War II in

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. She wrote fiction and poetry and plays. She also wrote for children and translated from French. Her novel ''Gedichte'' (Poems) won the Roswitha von Gandersheim Medal in 1976, an award made to outstanding women writers in German. She worked for publishers until 1998Elizabeth Borchers
, Anvil poetry, retrieved 5 April 2014 where she helped the eventual nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. Borchers died in

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1926 births 2013 deaths People from Duisburg German women poets 20th-century German poets 20th-century German women writers Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-writer-stub