Hans Alex Keilson (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦɑns ˈkɛilsɔn]; 12 December 1909 – 31 May 2011)^[1] was a German-Dutch novelist, poet, psychoanalyst and child psychologist. He was best known for his novels set during the Second World War, during which he was an active member of the Dutch resistance.

Keilson, having worked with traumatized orphans, mainly wrote about traumas induced by the war. His first novel was published in 1934, but most of his works were published after the war. In 2010, The New York Times ‘s Francine Prose described Keilson as “one of the world’s greatest writers”, notably honouring Keilson’s achievements in the year in which he turned 101 years old

… this is Hans Keilson with thecover of his new double edition: His entire work in two  big volumes .
Listen to an interview with him: http://www.exil-archiv.de/audio/keilson/keilson.mp3

Born in Germany in 1909, he published his first novel Das Leben geht weiter (Life goes on) in 1933, shortly before his emigration to the Netherlands. In 1943 he went underground and worked as a doctor and courier for the resistance group Vrije Groepen Amsterdam. In 1948 he received his Dutch approbation as a doctor and subsequently specialised in psychiatry and psychoanalisis.

Hans Keilson’s thesis, published in 1979, Sequentielle Traumatisierung bei Kindern (Sequential Traumatisation in Children), has been translated into several languages and was based on the therapeutic work he carried out on behalf of Le Ezrat HaJeled until 1970. His most recent work Sieben Sterne. Reden, Gedichte und eine Geschichte. Mit einem Nachwort von Gerhard Kurz (Seven stars. Speeches, Poems and a Story. With a postsript by Gerhard Kurz) was published in 2003. An edition of his collected works is just published and available with the renowned publishing house S. Fischer. http://www.fischerverlage.de

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