Maria Lazar Author

Maria Lazar (1895–1948) was an Austrian-Jewish novelist, playwright, and journalist whose socially incisive, anti-fascist writing flourished in the interwar years. Writing at times under the pseudonym Esther Grenen, she went into exile in Scandinavia after 1933. Long neglected after she died in 1948, her work has been rediscovered since the 2010s. Myself, Four Times is the first English translation of Lazar’s work. Isabel Fargo Cole is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. She is the initiator and coeditor of No Man’s Land, an online magazine for new German literature in English.