Siegfried Lenz (b. 17 March 1926 in Lyck, East Prussia) 
is a German writer who has written twelve novels and 
produced several collections of short stories, essays, 
and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the 
Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th 
Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. 
Lenz and his wife, Liselotte, also exchanged over 
100 letters with Paul Celan and his wife, Gis鋩e 
Lestrange between 1952 and 1961.