Franz Viktor Werfel ( 10 September 1890 &ndash; 26 August 1945 ) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist , playwright , and poet whose career spanned World War I , the Interwar period , and World War II . He is primarily known as the author of '' The Forty Days of Musa Dagh '' ( 1933 , English tr . 1934 , 2012 ) , a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , and '' The Song of Bernadette '' ( 1941 ) , a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous , which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Franz Werfel