Literature: Writer Martin Walser died on July 26th

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Writer Martin Walser died on July 26th

Martin Walser’s day of death was July 26 – not July 28, as initially reported. photo

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A week ago, Martin Walser’s death caused grief. Now it turns out that the writer had died two days earlier.

The writer Martin Walser died two days earlier than initially reported. A spokeswoman for the Rowohlt publishing house announced on Friday in Hamburg that Walser’s death was July 26th. On Friday a week ago, the publisher initially wrote in a message that Walser died on July 28 at the age of 96. Numerous media had adopted this date – including the German Press Agency.

“It must have been a transmission error that occurred shortly before our press release was published last Friday,” a spokeswoman for the publisher told the “Südkurier”.

Walser was considered one of the most important contemporary writers in Germany. One of his best-known works is the critically acclaimed 1978 novella A Fleeing Horse, which was made into a film. He has received numerous prizes for his work, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 1981 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1998.

Walser was buried on Monday in the closest family circle in Wasserburg on Lake Constance. Walser was born in Wasserburg in Bavaria and has been an honorary citizen there since 1984. Most recently he lived in the Überlingen district of Nußdorf (Baden-Württemberg).

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