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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.
Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister, and decisive historical events in Decisive Moments in History. He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché, Mary Stuart and Marie Antoinette, among others. Zweig's best-known fiction includes Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok, Fear, Confusion of Feelings, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman, the psychological novel Ungeduld des Herzens, and The Royal Game.
In 1934, as a result of the Nazi Party's rise in Germany and the establishment of the Standestaat regime in Austria, Zweig emigrated to England and then, in 1940, moved briefly to New York and then to Brazil, where he settled. In his final years, he would declare himself in love with the country, writing about it in the book Brazil, Land of the Future.
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