Max Frisch
"I'm Not Stiller" started with a print-run that provided for sales of 3,000 in its first year, but thanks to strong and growing reader demand it later became the first book published by Suhrkamp to top one million copies. The next novel, "Homo Faber", was another best seller, with four million copies of the German language version produced by 1998. "The Fire Raisers" and "Andorra" are the most successful German language plays of all time, with respectively 250 and 230 productions up till 1996, according to an estimate made by the literary critic Volker Hage. The two plays, along with "Homo Faber" became curriculum favourites with schools in the German-speaking middle European countries. Apart from a few early works, most of Frisch's books and plays have been translated into around ten languages, while the most translated of all, "Homo Faber", has been translated into twenty-five languages.
N. Richard Nash
Nash published two books on philosophy, "The Athenian Spirit" and "The Wounds of Sparta". Nash wrote his first play, "Parting at Imsdorf", in 1940, which won the Maxwell Anderson Verse Drama Award. He next penned the Shakespearian-themed comedy "The Second Best Bed", produced on Broadway in 1946. The highly acclaimed drama led to him writing more shows, including "The Young and Fair" (1948), "See the Jaguar" (1952, for which he won the International Drama Award in Cannes and the Prague Award), and "The Rainmaker" (1954, starring Geraldine Page; revived on Broadway in 1999). "The Rainmaker", a full-length play, had originally been a Philco Television Playhouse one-act 1953 television production. It was translated to over 40 languages and made into a 1956 Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn, and a 1982 full-length TV production. The play was made into a Broadway musical, "110 in the Shade".