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Leo Perutz
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2 November 1882 - 25 August 1957
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Born in Prague in the family of an industrialist. In his youth he moved with his parents to Vienna. Failed on university exams and got a job at an insurance agency. During the First World War, he fought on the Eastern Front (1915-1916), was wounded, and after his recovery served as a war correspondent in Ukraine and Romania. In the same 1915 he published his first novel “Three Bullets”, followed by “Marquis de Bolibar”, “Lord of the Doomsday”, “Little Apple” and other novels and novels. After the
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Born in Prague in the family of an industrialist. In his youth he moved with his parents to Vienna. Failed on university exams and got a job at an insurance agency. During the First World War, he fought on the Eastern Front (1915-1916), was wounded, and after his recovery served as a war correspondent in Ukraine and Romania. In the same 1915 he published his first novel “Three Bullets”, followed by “Marquis de Bolibar”, “Lord of the Doomsday”, “Little Apple” and other novels and novels. After the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria to Germany, 1938), Perutz emigrated to Palestine, as Israel was then called; there he wrote two of his last novels: "A Night Under a Stone Bridge" (1953) and "Judas Leonardo" (1959, published posthumously). He died of a heart attack.