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
Suhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading European publishers of fine literature. Its roots go back to the "arianized" part of the S. Fischer Verlag.
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'', but left the publishing house during the Lektoren-Aufstand ("Editors' Revolt") of 1968.[
In 2014, Roman Bucheli, Literary Editor of the '']Neue Zürcher Zeitung
The ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'' (''NZZ''; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich. The paper was founded in 1780. It was described as having a reputation as a high-quality ne ...
'', 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"[
]
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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*''The blue soda siphon'' ("Der blaue Siphon"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 014 014 may refer to:
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*''In the Congo'' ("Im Kongo"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 015
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Albums
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*''Mr Adamson'' ("Herr Adamson"). Tr. Donal McLaughlin, London, Seagull Books 015
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album ...
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Awards and honors
*1977 Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden
The Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (War Blinded Audio Play Prize), also known as the Kriegsblindenpreis (War Blinded Prize) is the most important literary prize granted to playwrights of audio plays written in the German language. The award was ...
, ''Fernsehabend''
*1992 Preis der SWR-Bestenliste
*1997 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis ("dramatist award of Mülheim"), founded in 1976, is one of the leading theater awards in Germany. It is awarded by an open jury of theater professionals, critics and playwrights who watch a short list of productions du ...
, ''Top Dogs''
*1998 Heimito von Doderer Prize
*2001 Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize
Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis ( en, "Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize") is a literary award in Augsburg, Germany, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht
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*2002 [
*2013 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize][
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References
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1938 births
2014 deaths
Swiss writers