Switzerland’s diverse literature

Novelist Urs Faes digs into his memory.

Bernese theologian and author Kurt Marti died in 2017 at the ripe age of 96. He would have been 100 this year.

Swiss popular writer Ernst Frey travelled across the United States on foot as a callow 15-year-old

Luisa Famos’s poignant, inspiring works evoke memories of her Engadine homeland as well as her encounters in Latin America

“It was going to be the best possible day. Vreni didn’t care about the fog that had been smothering the farm since Friday...”.

Germaine de Staël, of Genevan origin, was a woman of letters and a leading intellectual who lived in Paris but had to flee to exile in Switzerland…

Switzerland was quite a precarious, dangerous, volatile, backward place in the first half of the 19^th century. The country was in the mire and sinking…