Bertha von Suttner

Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner, born Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau on June 9, 1843, in Prague, was a noted Austrian pacifist, novelist, and the first female Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1905). Raised in an aristocratic military family, she developed a radical stance against war, pivoting towards writing and activism. Her literary career propelled forward after her marriage to Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner, with whom she shared her pacifist ideals. Bertha's masterpiece, ;anti-war literature, pacifist fiction, Austrian classics, Nobel Prize literature, historical autobiographical novel, 19th-century women writers, peace movement novels, Bertha von Suttner books, European literary classics, social reform fiction