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    Franz Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote about the Armenian genocide and the life of Bernadette Soubirous. He was married to Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and had a son who died in infancy.

  2. Franz Werfel was a German-language writer who wrote Expressionist poetry, plays, and novels. He is best known for his epic novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and his novel The Song of Bernadette, based on the life of St. Bernadette.

  3. Franz Werfel war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller jüdisch-deutschböhmischer Herkunft, der vor dem Nationalsozialismus ins Exil floh. Er schrieb Lyrik, Romane, Dramen und Libretti, darunter Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh und Das Lied von Bernadette.

  4. One of the leading 20th-century literary figures of pre-Nazi Austria, Franz Werfel was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1890, the first child of a Jewish glove manufacturer and his wife.

  5. Franz Werfel. Czech-born poet, playwright, and novelist, whose central themes were religious faith, heroism, and human brotherhood. Franz Werfel's best-known works include The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933), a classic historical novel that portrays Armenian resistance to the Turks, and The Song of Bernadette (1941).

  6. The Song of Bernadette, novel by Czech-born writer Franz Werfel, published in 1941 in German as Das Lied von Bernadette. The book is based on the true story of a peasant girl of Lourdes, France, who had visions of the Virgin Mary.

  7. Franz Werfel was an Austrian poet, modernist playwright, and novelist. Several of his works were burned during the Nazi book burnings of 1933. Learn more.