Holocaust survivor wins Theodor Kramer Literary Prize

Ruth Klueger, a US writer and academic has been awarded with a Theodor Kramer literary prize.

Born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1931, the Holocaust survivor received one of Austria's most important literary prizes that honors resistance and exile writers on May 20, 2011. The prize is accompanied by 7,300 euros (US $10,360).
At the end of World War II, she settled in Bavaria and afterward, in 1947, she immigrated to the United States. There she plunged into her academic life along with teaching German literature at several universities.
In her award-winning autobiography weiter leben: Eine Jugend, first published in German in 1992, Ruth portrayed the period of her childhood in Austria when it was captured by the Nazi Germany in 1938. In this very book, revised later on in 2001 as Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, she writes: "Suddenly I became a disadvantaged child who couldn't do the things that children in our circle usually learned to do, like swim in the municipal pool, acquire a bike, go with girlfriends to children's movies, or skate."
Ruth has been awarded with numerous literary prizes including the Rauriser Literature Prize, Grimmelshausen Prize, Niedersachsen State Prize and Johann-Jacob-Christoph-von Grimmelshausen-Preis, all within the year 1993, for her outstanding achievements as a critic and a writer.