Edith Bruck (born 3 May 1931)Edith Bruck: ''Who love you like this''. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2001, p. 3; Philip Balma: ''Edith Bruck in the Mirror. Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives'' (''Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies''). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2014, p. 2. Recently Edith Bruck claimed her birth year was often wrongly stated as 1932, while the correct year was 1931.
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. She has lived most of her life in

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and writes in

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Early life

The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she was born Edit Steinschreiber in the village of Tiszabercel near the Ukrainian border. In 1944, with her parents, two brothers and a sister, she was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. The family was transferred to Dachau where her father died, then to Christianstadt and finally

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, where the remaining children were liberated by the Allies in 1945. One brother also died in the

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s. She returned to Hungary and then went to

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, where another sister was living with her family.

Career

In 1959, she published her autobiography ''Chi ti ama così'', later translated as ''Who loves you like this'' (2001). In 1971, she wrote her first play, ''Sulla porta''. Bruck was a founder of the Teatro della Maddalena theatre in Rome. From the 1970s to the 1990s, she worked for the

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as a director and screenwriter. She has translated works by the Hungarian poets Attila József and

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into Italian. Her own work has been translated into other languages including Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, English and German.

Personal life

When she was 16, she married Milan Grün and moved to

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; the couple divorced the following year. She then married Dany Roth, but that marriage also ended in divorce. She next married an acquaintance named Bruck to postpone her compulsory military service; she had divorced him by the time that she was 20 but kept his surname. In 1954, Bruck moved to

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and later married Italian writer and director

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Selected works

* ''Chi ti ama così'', novel (1959) (''Who Loves You Like This'' (2001) tr. Thomas Kelso) * ''Andremo in città'', short stories (1962), title story adapted as a film in 1966 * ''Due stanze vuote'', short stories (1974), finalist for the

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* ''Per il tuo bene'', play (1975) * ''Mio splendido disastro'', novel (1979) * ''Lettera alla madre'',

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, (1988), received the Rapallo Carige Prize * ''Nuda proprietà'' (1993), finalist for the

* ''Il silenzio degli amanti'', novel (1997) * ''L’amore offeso'', novel (2002) * ''Quante stelle c’è nel cielo'', novel (2009), received the

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, adapted to film as '' Anita B.''

Filmography

* ''Improvviso'', director (1979) * ''Quale Sardegna?'', director (1983) * '' Fotografando Patrizia'', writer (1984) * ''Altare per la madre'', director (1986) * ''Per odio per amore'', writer (1991)

References

External links

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- EDITH BRUCK - Rivista Primi Piani

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