Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. An international bestseller, he wrote a string of hugely popular novellas. In 1934. with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York. During that period he produced his most celebrated works. Eventually, he moved to Brazil and in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.