The German novelist Hans Fallada is one of the more unlikely success stories of recent years. Born Rudolf Ditzen in 1893, Fallada (a pen-name based on a composite of characters from the Brothers Grimm ...

It's lucky that Hans Fallada's novel "Every Man Dies Alone" emerged from obscurity this year in its first English translation. Otherwise our image of the German resistance to Hitler might have been ...

Four years ago, an English translation of Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada's thriller set in Nazi Germany – became a publishing phenomenon more than six decades after he wrote it. Following that ...

This is the background story to the writing and eventual publication of Hans Fallada's A Stranger in My Own Country (Polity), a memoir of life in Nazi Germany written secretly by him while in prison ...

To anyone who’s depressed about the state of literary culture these days, Dennis Johnson would like to offer a three-word pep talk: Go to Chicago. It was during a recent visit that Johnson, founder of ...

Killer, junkie, jailbird, head case, both approved and condemned by the Nazis, a sort of belated poète maudit and proto-beatnik – when you read about Hans Fallada’s life you can’t help feeling that ...

Like Pinneberg, Hans Fallada wanted to live his life and largely ignore the political battles swirling around him. The enormous success of Little Man, What Now? provided him with enough money to leave ...

The Nazis didn’t kill German novelist Hans Fallada, but they were in many ways responsible for his untimely death in 1947, at the age of 53. There can be no question that Fallada’s already frail ...

Hans Fallada, the literary pseudonym of Rudolf Ditzen, was far more contradictory than any of the many characters he invented in his colourful fiction, which took as its theme ordinary people ...

More than 60 years after his death, German author Hans Fallada last year made a literary splash in the U.S. with the publication of the English translation of his Every Man Dies Alone. The novel (my ...

Hans Fallada, author of A Small Circus and Alone in Berlin. Hans Fallada’s 1947 thriller set in Nazi Germany, Alone in Berlin, was a belated bestseller in the English-speaking world when a new ...