Sachs, Nelly (1891-1970)

German-born Jewish poet. She shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 with the Israeli writer, Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Her poetry and plays are filled with Kabbalistic and Hasidic symbolism, and deal mainly with the Nazi persecution of the Jews. O The Chimneys: Selected Poems, was published in 1967. Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany. She fled to Sweden in 1940.