Helga M. Novak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helga M. Novak

German-Icelandic writer

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1935

Place of Birth: Köpenick, Berlin, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Dec-2013

Profession: writer, poet, unofficial collaborator

Nationality: Germany, Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Helga M.
Novak (pseudonym for Maria Karlsdottir; 8 September 1935 – 24 December 2013, in Rüdersdorf) was a German-Icelandic writer. Novak was born in Berlin.
She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. She moved to Iceland in 1961, where she married and had two children before her divorce. She traveled to Spain, France, and the U.S., before returning to East Germany.
When her citizenship was revoked for writing and publishing critical texts, she moved between Iceland, Germany and Bulgaria.
She was an informer ("inoffizieller Mitarbeiter") for the East German Stasi.
Novak died in 2013 in Berlin.