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Gertrud von Le Fort

Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays. She came from a Protestant background, but converted to Catholicism in 1926. Most of Gertrud's writings come after this conversion. In 1952 she won the Gottfried-Keller-Preis award.

Her novella Die Letzte am Schafott (The Last on the Scaffold) was the original basis for the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc. She also wrote a book called The Eternal Woman, which was published in paperback in English on March 1st, 2010.

Pseudonymes: Gerta von Stark, Petrea Vallerin


“The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.”
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“Who are you, world, that you should frighten me?”
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