Following the liberation of the Nazi camps at the end of World War II, she first settled in Bavaria in southern Germany, but emigrated to the United States in 1947 where she studied and subsequently taught German literature at a number of universities.
She wrote about her childhood in the book "weiter leben" in 1989 which was published in English under the title "Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood".
Klueger has received numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Memoire de la Shoah in 1998 following the publication of "Still Alive" in French under the title "Refus de temoigner".
She will officially receive the Theodor Kramer prize, which carries prize money of 7,300 euros ($10,360), on May 20.
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She wrote about her childhood in the book "weiter leben" in 1989 which was published in English under the title "Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood".
Klueger has received numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Memoire de la Shoah in 1998 following the publication of "Still Alive" in French under the title "Refus de temoigner".
She will officially receive the Theodor Kramer prize, which carries prize money of 7,300 euros ($10,360), on May 20.
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