The Swiss author, Paul Nizon remains outside any trends of contemporary German-language literature. Althrough he was loosly associated with the group 47, he now remains apart from any particular movement; he once described himself as “a writer of part autobiography and part fiction”. Nizon was born in 1929 as a
The writer, screenwriter and playwright Patrícia Melo was born in Assis in the Brazilian state of São Paulo in 1962. She moved to the capital in 1978 and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. She then worked as a scriptwriter for various
Nina Wehrle was born in 1984 in Willisau in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. From 2003 to 2008, she studied at the Hochschule für Design & Kunst in Lucerne, the oldest educational institution of its kind in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and completed an Erasmus semester at the respected
was born 1977 in Bern, studied performance studies and works as dramatic advisor, author and performance poet. She has been competing in poetry slams from Bern to Copenhagen and from Berlin to New York since 2001. Her texts can be found in German, Swiss German and English. In 2008 the
Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961. He studied at the faculty for Romance and German languages and literature of the National College for Education in Moscow, then worked for three years for the youth journal »Rovesnik« (tr: The Coeval), followed by five years as a German and English
Michael Fehr was born in 1982 and grew up in Bern. He studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and at the Bern University of the Arts. In 2013, he made his début with »Kurz vor der Erlösung: Siebzehn Sätze« (tr: Close to Salvation: Seventeen Sentences), a volume that
Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in the small town of Bečej in Serbia. Her family belonged to the Hungarian minority there in the province of Vojvodina. At the age of five, she emigrated with her parents to Switzerland, where she grew up next to Lake Zurich.At the University of Zurich,
Matthias Zschokke was born in 1954 in Bern and grew up in the Swiss Mittelland region. He completed acting school in Zurich and was then employed at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, whose theatrical director at that time was Peter Zadek.His prose debut with the novel »Max« came in 1982. In addition
born in 1949, studied in Frankfurt and Berlin and worked for O. M. Ungers until he became self-employed in 1986. He has participated in many competitions with designs characterized by Rationalism and Minimalism and he has built several libraries, for example the Folkwang Library in Essen. His most important projects
Matthias Gnehm was born in Zurich in 1970 and received his diploma in architecture from the ETH in 1999. Since graduating, he has worked as an independent freelancer, first as a comic artist, architect, and stenographer. Today, he is a freelance author and illustrator of graphic novels as well as
Martin Suter was born in Zurich in 1948. His first job was as a copywriter and creative director in advertising. He has worked exclusively as an author since 1991.His debut novel »Small World« (1997) was translated into English in 2001 and follows the story of Konrad Lang, who suffers from
Manuela Kalbermatten born in 1980 in Bürglen, Switzerland, studied German literature, European popular literature and media and communication science in Zurich, where she wrote her dissertation on gender in future fiction for young adults. She writes about children’s and young adult literature for various media. She lives in Winterthur, is
