Below is a partial, though fairly thorough, list of modern Swiss poetry and prose published in English translation since 2010. I’ve not included straightforward reprints of earli
12 Swiss Books is published annualy by the Literature and Society Department of Pro Helvetia. The magazine was launched in 2012 as the main promotional tool to raise international
The most sincere compliment you could pay Zurich is to describe it as one of the great bourgeois cities of the world. This might not, of course, seem like a compliment – the word
Born in Scuol in 1944, Leta Semadeni writes concise, luminous poetry in both German and the Vallader dialect of Romansh. She is equally at home in, and slightly removed from, both
It aw started long afore that. Ah kid jist as well make oot but: it aw started that wan evenin, a few days eftir the let me ootae the Joke. Boot ten in the evenin, it wis. Hawf pas
Ora pro nobis, the old man up in heaven is taking his time this year, michty me, it widna exactly be wrong if it’d snow a bit, says Paul and looks at the sky, but that donkey Sai
This is the second volume in English of Arno Camenisch’s Alpine trilogy, preceded by The Alp and concluded by Last Last Orders. The trilogy, set in a Grisons / Graubünden valley
Romansh is Switzerland’s fourth national language, alongside German, French and Italian. Most of the roughly 60,000 Romansh speakers live in the canton of Graubünden. In Romansh
You traced this simple gesture with your hand: you raised it to your face, you stretched it towards my window, while I was driving: I looked, and against the hazy morning light I c
Orange Papers e con ardente affetto il sole aspetta Dante, Par., XXIII 8 This tissue paper, multi-coloured, rustling between the fingers that smoothed it, stretched it carefully, e
