Urs Widmer | |
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Born | Basel, Switzerland | 21 May 1938
Died | 2 April 2014 | (aged 75)
Occupation | Novelist, essayist, playwright |
Language | German |
Nationality | Swiss |
Period | 1968–2013 |
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Urs Widmer (21 May 1938 – 2 April 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer.[1][2]
Widmer was born in Basel in 1938, and for many years lived in Zurich.[1] Widmer studied German, French, and history at the universities of Basel and Montpellier.[1] After completing his PhD, he worked briefly as an editor at Suhrkamp Verlag, but left the publishing house during the Lektoren-Aufstand ("Editors' Revolt") of 1968.[1]
In 2014, Roman Bucheli, Literary Editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, said that Widmer: