Pen name Helga M. Novak Education Leipzig University Role Writer | Name Helga Novak Nationality German, Icelandic | |
Born 8 September 1935Berlin ( 1935-09-08 ) Died December 24, 2013, Rudersdorf, Germany |
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Helga M. Novak (pseudonym for Maria Karlsdottir; 8 September 1935 – 24 December 2013 in Rüdersdorf) was a German-Icelandic writer.
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Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
She moved to Iceland in 1961, where she married and had two children before her divorce.
She traveled to Spain, France, and the U.S., before returning to East Germany. When her citizenship was revoked for writing and publishing critical texts, she moved between Iceland, Germany and Bulgaria. She was an informer ("inoffizieller Mitarbeiter") for the East German Stasi. Novak died in 2013 in Berlin.
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