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Erich Maria Remarque
1898–1970
Best known for All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote with unusual clarity about war, exile, and the hard work of staying human in brutal times. His novels reached a huge international audience and helped shape how modern readers imagine the First World War.
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All quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
About the author
Born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1898, Erich Maria Remarque served in the German army during the First World War. That experience became the foundation of his most famous novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, first published in 1928, which brought him worldwide recognition for its direct, unsentimental picture of soldiers' lives.
Remarque went on to write other widely read novels, including The Road Back, Three Comrades, and Arch of Triumph. His work often returned to the emotional aftermath of war, the fragility of friendship and love, and the lives of people pushed across borders by violence and politics.
After the rise of the Nazi regime, his books were banned in Germany, and he lived much of his later life outside his homeland. He died in Locarno, Switzerland, in 1970, and remains one of the most influential antiwar novelists of the twentieth century.