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Born January 24, 1867 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died February 12, 1952 (aged 85) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Bergvolk” • “Helden des Alltags” • “Was das Leben zerbricht”
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Gottfried Keller, drawing by R. Leemann, 1842; in the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich
Gottfried Keller
Swiss author
Gotthelf, engraving by C.A. Gonzenbach, after a portrait by J.F. Dietler
Jeremias Gotthelf
Swiss writer
Peter Bichsel
Swiss author
Meinrad Inglin
Swiss author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Arno Schmidt
German author
Böll, Heinrich
Heinrich Böll
German author
Uwe Johnson
German author
E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
Russian author
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
Adalbert Stifter
Austrian writer
Bozorg Alavi
Iranian author
Wilhelm Raabe.
Wilhelm Raabe
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author