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Ella Creamer

Lore Segal, Austrian-American author, dies aged 96

Lore Segal.
‘How interesting’ … Lore Segal. Photograph: © Ellen Dubin Photography

Lore Segal, the Austrian-American writer of autobiographical novels and short stories drawing on her experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna for England as a Jewish refugee and later settling in the US, died on Monday aged 96.

In a distinctively wry and shrewd voice, her work explored themes of displacement, assimilation, race, memory and death.

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