Swiss Literatures
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Nicht bei Trost Dodel, Franz (Out of One's Mind)
A haiku is a complete three line lyrical miniature following the 5-7-5 pattern of sound units. Hence, an endless haiku seems contradictory. Nevertheless, the author and theologist Franz Dodel ...
The Alp Camenisch, Arno (Sez Ner)
Marvelling at the beauty of the mountain scenery, the tourists hike past the Alpine chalet in their red socks, stopping to take photos of the Alpine herdsman standing outside. Cleaning their ...
Théoda Bille, S. Corinna
«Théoda», published in 1944, was the first novel of S. Corinna Bille (1912-1979). The daughter of the painter Edmond Bille had been living for a year with her future husband, Maurice Chappaz, ...
Poesia Darms, Flurin (Poetry)
Nature, faith and the life of the people who live in the mountains – these are the motives of this poetry edition by Flurin Darms. While the earlier poems are characterised by a traditional ...
Max ist los! Im Affentempo durch Zürich Claudia de Weck (Ill.) , Anita Siegfried (Text), (Max on the Loose! Zurich at Breakneck Speed)
The little monkey Max has been living in a painting in the Zurich art museum for a long time. Which is far too boring, and which is why he seizes the opportunity of a left-behind backpack to leave ...
Le Tigre bleu Robel, Nicolas (The Blue Tiger)
The comic «Le Tigre Bleu» won the Swiss Media Award for Young Audiences in 2003. Finally, it is also available in German, published not by a seasoned picture book publisher but as a SJW magazine ...
Les Cercles mémoriaux Collin, David (Memorial Circles)
Who is this man stranded in the Gobi Desert? What brought him here? The 'Castaway' is found by a caravan, and it soon becomes clear that he has forgotten everything. He knows nothing about his ...
La Lenteur de l'aube Brécart, Anne (The Slowness of Dawn)
What kind of world does Hanna inhabit? She returns to the city she grew up in – and it is no easy return. Her mother, who had summoned her back, is still difficult, but Hanna had expected that. ...
Le Chêne brûlé Cherpillod, Gaston (The Burned Oak)
«Théoda», published in 1944, was the first novel of S. Corinna Bille (1912-1979). The daughter of the painter Edmond Bille had been living for a year with her future husband, Maurice Chappaz, ...
Jusqu'à la transparence Burri, Julien (To Transparency)
The young writer Julien Burri (born in 1980) mostly focuses on narrative prose. His collections of poetry are short and few and far between. «Jusqu'à la transparence» is made up of short and ...
Schneewauzer Burren, Ernst (Snow Waltz)
Ernst Burren comes from Oberdorf in Canton Solothurn, where he was born and still lives. The town remains a source of material and language for the writer. The son of an innkeeper, he spent his ...
Stories for Children Bichsel, Peter (Kindergeschichten)
Peter Bichsel is a master of short prose forms. His probably most successful work and one of the most translated books of Swiss German-language literature, his «Stories for Children», was ...
Kolumnen Kolumnen Bichsel, Peter (Columns Columns)
Peter Bichsel has been writing literary columns for Swiss newspapers and magazines since 1975. In their entirety, they make up his secret magnum opus. More than 300 of these miniatures, spanning ...
A l’ur dal di Bezzola, Clo Duri (At Day’s Edge)
«A l’ur dal di» (At Day’s Edge) is a collection of short prose pieces which Clo Duri Bezzola composed in Vallader (Rhaeto-Romanic). The 38 stories are self-contained and describe the ...
Im Kairo Bern ist überall, (At Café Kairo)
Under the name «Berne is everywhere», six authors and two musicians* joined forces to develop a label for fulminant, polyphonic spoken-word performances. Literature does not only belong in books ...
One Hundred Days Bärfuss, Lukas (Hundert Tage)
A Swiss development aide worker witnesses the genocide in Rwanda. One David Hohl – the surname translates into «hollow» – arrives in Kigali as a 24-year-old idealist, but the Rwandan capital ...
Koala Bärfuss, Lukas
Schweizer Buchpreis 2014 The Dramatist and novelist Lukas Bärfuss comes from Thun. At the beginning of the 19th century, the distinguished poet Heinrich von Kleist – who later ...
The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Bärfuss, Lukas (Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern)
All of the characters in Lukas Bärfuss' play "The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents" want to do what is best for mentally handicapped Dora. All but one, that is. But it is sometimes hard ...
Le feu au lac Benoziglio, Jean-Luc (The Fire on the Lake)
On a small river island in France lives a poor and lonely outsider. Little by little, a life story comes together. Raised in a catholic family in French-speaking Switzerland, the young man ...
Unterwegs nach Ochotsk Frey, Eleonore
Swiss Literature Prize 2015 ::: COMING SOON ::::::::::: (Jury selection of the Swiss Literature Prize)
