Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Ödön von Horváth
Born: December 9, 1901
Died: June 1, 1938 (aged 36)
Bio: Edmund Josef von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist. He preferred the Hungarian version of his first name and published as Ödön von Horváth.
Known for:
- Jugend ohne Gott (1937)
- Ein Kind unserer Zeit (1938)
- Youth Without God
- The Eternal Philistine
- Tales from the Vienna Woods and Other Plays