Urs Widmer (21 May 1938 – 2 April 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer.
Biography
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"][
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Works in English translation
*''My mother's lover'' ("Der Geliebte meiner Mutter"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 011
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*''My father's book'' ("Das Buch des Vaters"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 011
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*''On life, death, and this and that of the rest. The Frankfurt lectures on poetics'' ("Vom Leben, vom Tod und vom Übrigen auch dies und das"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 013
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*''In the Congo'' ("Im Kongo"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 015 .
*''Mr Adamson'' ("Herr Adamson"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 015 .
Awards and honors
*1977 Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
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*1992 Preis der SWR-Bestenliste
Preis der SWR-Bestenliste is a literature prize awarded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Winners
*1978 Gerhard Roth
*1979 Ludwig Fels
*1980 Otto F. Walter
*1981 Peter Weiss
*1982 Franz Fühmann
*1983 Oskar Pastior
*1984 Christa Reinig
*1985 ...
*1997 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis, ''Top Dogs''
*1998 Heimito von Doderer Prize
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*2001 Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize
*2002 [
*2013 ]Friedrich Hölderlin Prize Friedrich may refer to:
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* Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
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References
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1938 births
2014 deaths
Swiss writers