Stefan Zweig Edit

(1881-1942, Austria)  Author | Writer  | Theatre  | Suicide  | Passion

( fr ) Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 ? February 22, 1942) was an Austrian writer.Stefan Zweig was a famous writer in the 1920s and 1930s. Today, he is still well-known in many European countries, but his work has become less familiar in the English-speaking world. Since the 1990s, there has been an effort on the part of several publishers (notably Pushkin Press) to get Zweig back into print in English. Zweig is most famous for his novels (notably The Royal Game, Amok, Beware of Pity, and Confusion of Feelings) and biographies (notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles). At one time, his works were published in English under the pseudonym Stephen Branch (a translation of his real name), when anti-German sentiment was running high. His biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette was later adapted for a Hollywood movie starring the actress Norma Shearer in the title role. There are important Zweig collections at the British Library and at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The British Library's Zweig Music Collection was donated to the library by his heirs in May 1986: it specialises in autograph music manuscripts, including works by Bach, Haydn, Wagner, and Mahler. It has been described as 'one of the world's greatest collections of autograph manuscripts'. One particularly precious item is Mozart's Verzeichnüss, that is, the composer's own handwritten thematic catalogue of his works.