Author. She has received international acclaimed in the 20th century as an award-winning German writer of novels, poems and short stories. In 1958 she was the recipient of the Georg Buchner Prize, the most prestigious award in German literature and the Roswitha Prize in 1973. She was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded to Miguel Angel Asturias. Born Marie Luise von Holzing-Berstett to an aristocratic family, she lived in Potsdam, Germany before relocating to Berlin. Since her father was a general in the Prussian Army, she attended a private boarding school and was given an excellent education studying publishing. She took a position in a publishing house in Munich before one in a second-hand bookstore in Rome, Italy in 1925. She married archaeologist Guido von Kaschnitz-Weinberg and accompanied him on his expeditions to Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Turkey and north Africa. After the birth of their daughter in 1928, she started her literary career by publishing her short stories, essays and poems. In 1933 she published her first novel, “Love Begins,” and this followed with “Elissa” in 1936. Although both books were unsuccessful until many years later, they addressed the problems a young woman could face . She was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and PEN, the international organization for writers. In January of 1946, she published the article “On Guilt” in the magazine “The Change.” This article, which was dated less than a year after the end of World War II, replies to the charges made against the German people of having allowed the Nazi forces to drag the whole world to war. In 1947, she published “Poetry,” “Death of Dance” and “Poems of the Times,” which dealt with the complications of a nation recovering from war. In 1952 she published one of her most popular writings, “Kaschnitz's Collection of Poetry,” which followed by her autobiographical book, “The Fat Child and Other Stories.” It was at this point her writings were beginning to be recognized for their worth. In 1962 she published “Your Silence, My Voice,” a reflection of her mourning for her husband after his death. Another autobiographical novel in 1963, “Whither than I” and a collection of poetry in 1965, “Everywhere never” were published as she continued to write. In “Selected Writings,” her husband's three-volume text, that was published posthumously in 1965, she wrote his biography, which can be found in Volume 1, page 228 to 239. She also wrote radio plays, essays, and became a literary critic. In 1967 she published her last piece, a poem with a narrative, “Deserter”. The Goethe University Frankfurt presented her with an honorary doctorate degree the next year. Starting in the 1960s, her poems were translated into English and published in the United States. This followed with them being translated to French in the late 1970s and Russian in 2002. Her English collection includes “The House of Childhood,” “Circe's Mountain,” “Whether or Not,” “Selected Later Poems of Marie Luise Kaschnitz,” and “Long Shadows.” The City of Frankfurt celebrated her 100th birthday.