Edith Bruck is a Hungarian-born writer and director who has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian.
Background
The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she was born Edith Steinschreiber in the village of Tiszabercel near the Ukrainian border. In 1944, with her parents, two brothers and a sister, she was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. The family was transferred to Dachau where her father died, then to Christianstadt and finally Bergen-Belsen, where the remaining children were liberated by the Allies in 1945.
Career
One brother also died in the concentration camps. She returned to Hungary and then went to Czechoslovakia, where another sister was living with her family. In 1954, Bruck moved to Rome.
In 1959, she published her autobiography Chi ti ama così, later translated as Who loves you like this (2001).
In 1971, she wrote her first play Sulla Porta. From the 1970s to the 1990s, she worked for the Radiotelevisione Italiana as a director and screenwriter.
She translated works by the Hungarian poets Jòzsef Attila and Miklós Radnóti into Italian. Her own work has been translated into other languages including Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, English and German.