Editing Arno Schmidt (section)

==The final years==
1971 Schmidt was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] by [[Lars Gyllensten]], a member of the [[Swedish Academy]].<ref>List of [https://www.svenskaakademien.se/search/node/forslagslista candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature 1971] of the Swedish Academy, updated on 3 January 2022</ref>
But as none of Schmidt's works sold more than a few thousand copies (he openly admitted that he only wrote for the small handful of people who could appreciate his work), he lived in extreme poverty. During the last few years of his life, he was financially supported by the [[philologist]] and writer [[Jan Philipp Reemtsma]], the heir of the German cigarette manufacturer Philipp F. Reemtsma. Schmidt's final completed novel was ''Abend mit Goldrand'' (1975) which was praised by some critics for its verbal inventiveness, although many had a difficult time digesting the erotic themes of the book. He died in a hospital in [[Celle]] on 3 June 1979 after suffering a stroke.<ref>{{cite book|title=Review of Contemporary Fiction|publisher=John O'Brien|year=1988|page=142}}</ref>