Jorge Semprún

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Jorge Semprún was a Spanish writer, politician, and former resistance fighter whose work often drew on his experiences of exile and surviving Nazi concentration camps.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust survivor
human
politician
resistance fighter
screenwriter
writer
awardReceived Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
surface form: "Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels"

Prix Femina
Prix Formentor
causeOfDeath heart failure
countryOfBirth Spain
countryOfCitizenship France
Spain
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1923-12-10
dateOfDeath 2011-06-07
educatedAt Lycée Henri-IV
employer Spanish government
surface form: "Government of Spain"
endTime 1991
familyName Semprún
genre autobiographical novel
historical fiction
memoir
political literature
givenName Jorge
hasExperience Nazi concentration camp imprisonment
exile
imprisonedIn Buchenwald
surface form: "Buchenwald concentration camp"
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned French
German
Spanish
memberOf Communist Party of Spain
surface form: "Spanish Communist Party"
notableWork Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez
La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader
La montagne blanche
Le grand voyage
L’Algarabie
L’écriture ou la vie
Netchaïev est de retour
Quel beau dimanche!
Veinte años y un día
occupation memoirist
novelist
politician
screenwriter
translator
participantIn World War II
surface form: "Second World War"
participatedIn French Resistance
placeOfBirth Madrid
placeOfDeath Paris
positionHeld Minister of Culture of Spain
religion atheism
residence Madrid
Paris
sexOrGender male
startTime 1988

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Buchenwald notablePrisoner Jorge Semprún
Buchenwald notablePrisoner Jorge Semprún
this entity surface form: "Robert Antelme"

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