death_date death_place children birth_place pseudonym subject nationality notableworks relatives birth_date period spouse genre article_title name occupation
19 december 1989 laren , netherlands none amsterdam , netherlands jan van straaten music , literature dutch-american -lrb- jewish atheist -rrb- '' briefwechsel ; '' ` translations '' ' : music here ` and now , bambi 's children ; '' ` article books '' ' : chávez lights new music with old fires '' ' : slavonic rhapsody , louis , bart berman , helen berman , thijs berman , fles giorgio van straten , george fles , michael john fles 07 february 1902 1928-1982 -rrb- 1935-1943 -lrb- translating -rrb- -lrb- occasional writing -rrb- 1933-1986 -lrb- literary agency ruth grünwald non-fiction , juvenile barthold fles
 barthold fles literary publisher agent , author , translator , editor and
barthold fles

barthold fles -lrb- february 7 , 1902 -- december 19 , 1989 -rrb- was a dutch-american literary agent , author , translator , editor and publisher .
among his many clients were elias canetti , raymond loewy , heinrich mann , joseph roth , felix salten , ignazio silone , bruno walter and arnold zweig .
