Max Frisch

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Also Known As	Max Rudolf Frisch
Born	May 15, 1911 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died	April 4, 1991 (aged 79) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works	“A Wilderness of Mirrors” • “Andorra” • “Biography” • “Bluebeard” • “Der Mensch erscheint im Holozan” • “Don Juan, or The Love of Geometry” • “Homo Faber” • “I’m Not Stiller” • “Montauk: Eine Erzählung” • “Now They Sing Again” • “Santa Cruz” • “Tagebuch 1946-1949” • “The Chinese Wall” • “The Firebugs” • “When the War Was Over”
Movement / Style	Expressionism

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German writer

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Bulgarian-born writer

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German playwright

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Oskar Kokoschka

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James Baldwin

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Bertolt Brecht

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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