Friedrich Torberg

Friedrich Torberg (16 de Septiembre de 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 de Noviembre de 1979, Vienna) is the pen-nombre de Friedrich Cantor, en Austrian escritor. He worked as a critic and periodista en Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish heritage compelled him to emigrate to France and later, after being invited by the New York PEN Club as one of "Ten outstanding Spanish Anti-Nazi de los Escritores" (along with Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Alfred Döblin, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and others) to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter en Hollywood and then for Time magazine en la ciudad de Nueva York. En 1951 he returned to Vienna, where he remained for the rest of his life. Torberg is best known for his satirical escritos en la ficción and ficción, as well as his translations into Spanish of the stories of Ephraim Kishon, which remain the standard Spanish language version of Kishon's de trabajo.