Max Huwyler (6 December 1931 – 28 January 2023) was a Swiss writer.
Biography
Originally, Huwyler was a high school teacher in
Zürich
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. He wrote several books for children, theatre plays, poetry, fiction stories, and radio plays. He co-authored with Walter Flückiger a book in the volumes titled ''Welt der Wörter (World of Words)'' in 1983. His works include further texts for children, plays for the school stage, radio plays, poems, and children's books. He also translated plays by
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and
Günter Grass
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He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...
into Swiss German.
Huwyler was awarded the Swiss Youth Book Award in 1993, the
Schiller Foundation Award in 1996 and the Recognition Award of the Zug Canton, the Central Swiss Media Award of the
DRS Radioedition-magma.ch
/ref> and the Zons Radio Drama Award in 2004.
Publications
* 2010: ''Das Zebra ist das Zebra'' Illustrated by Jürg Obrist. Atlantis-Verlag, Zürich, .
* 2003: ''D'Bremer Stadtmusikante und d'Gschicht vom föifte Bremer''. Hörspiel Produktion, Zürich, .
* 2000: ''De Stadtgarteschnägg'' script author. Zytglogge, Bern, .
* 1997: ''Das Nashorn und das Nashorn'' Wrote with Vera Eggermann. Zytglogge, Bern, .
* 1983: ''Welt der Wörter'' Wrote with Walter Flückiger, Lehrmittelverlag, Zürich, .
References
External links
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120418032820/http://www.autillus.ch/plattforms/Huwyler_Max.html
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1931 births
2023 deaths
Swiss male poets
Swiss poets in German
Swiss children's writers
People from Zug