See more on the author's page Follow Erich M. RemarqueBrief content visible, double tap to read full content.Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.Erich Maria Remarque (22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) is about German soldiers in the First World War, which was also made into an Oscar-winning movie. His book made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burned many of his works. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by the original uploader was Володимир Ф at Ukrainian Wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.See more on the author's page Follow Kurt BealsBrief content visible, double tap to read full content.Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.Kurt Beals is visiting associate professor of German and humanities fellow in literary translation at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Wireless Dada: Telegraphic Poetics in the Avant-Garde; translator of books by Jenny Erpenbeck, Hermann Hesse, Erich Maria Remarque, Reiner Stach, Anja Utler, and Regina Ullmann; and coeditor of Hans Richters Rhythmus 21: Schlüsselfilm der Moderne (Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21: Key Film of Modernism). In 2010 he was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf–enkindle, and in 2012 he won the first ever German Book Office Tr