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Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (, ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during Worl ...

's first novel, published under the name Erich Remark. He started writing it at the age of sixteen and completed it after his service in

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, but it was not published until 1920. When he published ''

All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit=Nothing New in the West) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma du ...

'' in 1928, Remarque changed his middle name in memory of his mother and reverted to the earlier spelling of the family name to dissociate himself from ''Die Traumbude''.Afterword by Brian Murdoch, translator of 1996 English edition of The original family name, Remarque, had been changed to Remark by his grandfather in the 19th century.

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1920 German-language novels Novels by Erich Maria Remarque 1920 German novels 1920 debut novels {{1920s-novel-stub