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He pleaded for the importance of lasting literature in an increasingly distractable world

German poet, writer and editor determined that West Germany should not ignore its Nazi past

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, a poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator whose wide-ranging intellect and writings resonated among We

Poet, essayist, journalist and social critic, he held wide influence among a postwar literary generation with works as intellectual as they were political.

He designed a fridge-magnet poem-kit (which, I believe, has now had a software program based on it). He wrote a skeptical book about Europe in 1987, before Europe was really a subject (Ach Europa! was the wonderful title of the original; Europe Europe in English). He wrote a children’s book, an opera libretto about a runaway Cuban slave, a world-best-selling math book (The Number Devil), a partial memoir (Tumult).

On World Book Day, here are 5 sci-fi and fantasy stories for math lovers.