Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym, whose name was a pseudonym for Helmut Fleig, was born in Germany, spent the prewar years in Czechoslovakia, and lived in the United States from 1935 until 1952, where during World War II he worked for a psychological warfare military unit. He resettled in East Germany and became a journalist and novelist. His works, in English and German, received the Jerusalem Prize, the Pease Medal of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Heinrich Mann Prize, and the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class.