Hans Keilson

Hans Keilson is the author of Life Goes On , Comedy in a Minor Key, and The Death of the Adversary . Born in Germany in 1909, he published his first novel in 1933. During World War II he joined the Dutch resistance. Later, as a psychotherapist, he pioneered the treatment of war trauma in children. He died in 2011 at the age of 101. Damion Searls is an author and has also translated thirty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. He rediscovered the work of Hans Keilson; his 2010...See more

Hans Keilson is the author of Life Goes On , Comedy in a Minor Key, and The Death of the Adversary . Born in Germany in 1909, he published his first novel in 1933. During World War II he joined the Dutch resistance. Later, as a psychotherapist, he pioneered the treatment of war trauma in children. He died in 2011 at the age of 101. Damion Searls is an author and has also translated thirty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. He rediscovered the work of Hans Keilson; his 2010 translation of Keilson's Comedy in a Minor Key, published to international acclaim when Keilson was 100, was a New York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. See less