B. Traven (; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949.
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![Ret Marut [[mug shot]] taken in London (1923); Ret Marut has been generally accepted as the name used in Germany by the same person who used the name B. Traven in Mexico.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/B._Traven_aka_Red_Marut_arrest_photo_in_London_1923_%28front%29.jpg)
B. Traven (; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949.
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