Below is a partial, though fairly thorough, list of modern Swiss poetry and prose published in English translation since 2010.…
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12 Swiss Books is published annualy by the Literature and Society Department of Pro Helvetia. The magazine was launched in…
The most sincere compliment you could pay Zurich is to describe it as one of the great bourgeois cities of…
Born in Scuol in 1944, Leta Semadeni writes concise, luminous poetry in both German and the Vallader dialect of Romansh.…
It aw started long afore that. Ah kid jist as well make oot but: it aw started that wan evenin,…
Ora pro nobis, the old man up in heaven is taking his time this year, michty me, it widna exactly…
This is the second volume in English of Arno Camenisch’s Alpine trilogy, preceded by The Alp and concluded by Last…
Romansh is Switzerland’s fourth national language, alongside German, French and Italian. Most of the roughly 60,000 Romansh speakers live in…
You traced this simple gesture with your hand: you raised it to your face, you stretched it towards my window,…
Orange Papers e con ardente affetto il sole aspetta Dante, Par., XXIII 8 This tissue paper, multi-coloured, rustling between the…
And there you are. Rain digs them and follows steep paths in rivulets, deer trails slope across. If lost, let…
Yesterday the tallest boy put a stone between his teeth and began to chew. He showed his mother what a…
