Remarque, Erich Maria

Remarque, Erich Maria ( 1898 – 1970 ),
German novelist, author of Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929 ), a fictionalized acount of his experiences in the First World War which was translated into many languages, but in Germany was denounced for its pacifism and burnt publicly ( 1933 ) by the Nazis. Remarque left Germany in 1938 , and in 1939 moved permanently to the United States; many of his later novels centre on the theme of exile.