Peter Filkins

Apr 1, 2020

H. G. Adler and Holocaust

A Conversation with Peter Filkins

New Books Network 2020

Poet and NYIH Fellow Peter Filkins talks with Eric Banks about his exceptional involvement with the work of H.G. Adler, the Holocaust survivor who authored definitive fictional and ethnographic portraits of life in the camps. In 2019 Filkins published his biography of this extraordinary figure, a book that was preceded by his translation of the novelistic trilogy.

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