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Urs Widmer
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Urs Widmer

Urs Widmer (1938–2014) was born in Basel. He studied German, Romance languages and History in Basel, Montpellier and Paris. After finishing his PhD, he worked as an editor for the German Suhrkamp Verlag before he and other editors founded the Verlag der Autoren. In 2007 he was awarded the ›Friedrich-Holderlin-Preis‹ of the town of Bad Homburg for his collected works.

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Books

Die schönsten Geschichten aus Tausendundeiner Nacht
Urs Widmer & Tatjana Hauptmann
The Most Beautiful Tales From the Arabian Nights
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Die schönsten Geschichten aus Tausendundeiner Nacht
Urs Widmer & Tatjana Hauptmann
The Most Beautiful Tales From the Arabian Nights
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Pressezitate

Die Welt, Berlin
»A Swiss world-class successor to Frisch and Dürrenmatt.«
Le Monde, Paris
»One of the best representatives of Swiss literature.«
Beatrice von Matt
(Swiss literary critic)

»A magician is at work. He creates, explores and transforms worlds. He tells stories in rich variations, relates them to one another, composes them.«