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Celan

British  
/ ˈsɛlæn /

noun

  1. Paul, real name Paul Antschel. 1920–70, Romanian Jewish poet, writing in German, whose work reflects the experience of Nazi persecution

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After Celan, the dictum could no longer stand untouched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

In Bucharest, where he arrived in 1945, Paul Antschel became Paul Celan, the new name an anagrammatic rebirth from the Romanian spelling of “Ancel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Dr. Langer agreed with writers, many of them Holocaust victims, including Primo Levi, Paul Celan and Tadeusz Borowski, who resisted easy explanations for their experience.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Your attention to the indeterminate and obscured brings to mind another source, the poet Paul Celan, who wrote: “Speaks true who speaks shadows.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

The king of that Island of Celan hath the largest and finest ruby in existence.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule

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