Name Urs Widmer | Role Novelist | |
Died April 2, 2014, Zurich, Switzerland Parents Anita Widmer, Walter Widmer Books Top dogs, My Mother's Lover, My Father's Book, Im Kongo, Mr Adamson Similar People A A Milne, E H Shepard, Sean O'Casey |
J.S. Bach-Stiftung: Reflexion von Urs Widmer zur Kantate BWV 36
Urs Widmer (21 May 1938 – 2 April 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer.
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- JS Bach Stiftung Reflexion von Urs Widmer zur Kantate BWV 36
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- Works in English translation
- Awards and honors
- References
Widmer was born in Basel in 1938, and for many years lived in Zurich. Widmer studied German, French, and history at the universities of Basel and Montpellier. After completing his PhD, he worked briefly as an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag, but left the publishing house during the Lektoren-Aufstand ("Editors' Revolt") of 1968.
In 2014, Roman Bucheli, Literary Editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, said that Widmer:
"is without doubt one of the most significant and versatile talents currently at work in the field of contemporary German-language literature as well as one of the most successful. His sales are invariably in the high five-figure bracket"Top dogs urs widmer
Works in English translation
Awards and honors
References
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