Alain Claude Sulzer (born 17 February 1953) is a Swiss writer and translator.Profile
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Riehen Riehen (Swiss German: ''Rieche'') is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton. Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a privately ...

, near

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. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of

Julien Green Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (''The Dark Journey'', ''The Closed Garden'', ''Moira'', ''Each Man in His Darkness'', the ''Dixie'' trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiog ...

's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the '' NZZ''. He has published more than ten books and has won a number of literary awards in the process, such as the

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(1984), or the

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(2009). His novel ''A Perfect Waiter'' won the

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and the and has been translated into several languages. Another novel ''Aus den Fugen'' has also met with critical and commercial success and is set to be translated into English. ''Die Jugend ist ein fremdes Land'', was published in September 2017 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. He lives with his partner, the theater actor Georg Martin Bode, in Basel, Alsace and Berlin.

Awards

* 1984

for ''Das Erwachsenengerüst'' * 2008

for ' * 2009 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis for ''Privatstunden''

Memberships

* 2022

Works

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English translations

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French translations

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Italian translations

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Dutch translation

Finnish translation

References

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* Swiss male novelists Writers from Basel-Stadt 1953 births Living people 21st-century Swiss novelists 21st-century male writers Prix Médicis étranger winners {{Switzerland-bio-stub