Alain Claude Sulzer

Alain Claude Sulzer (2011)

Alain Claude Sulzer (born February 17, 1953 in Riehen ) is a Swiss writer and translator .

Life

Sulzer trained as a librarian and later worked as a journalist . Since the 1980s he has been publishing his own literary texts, mainly prose . He has also translated some works from French . In 1990 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt ; from 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the jury there. In 2012, his novel Aus den Fugen was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize . Sulzer now lives in Basel, in Vieux-Ferrette in Alsace and in Berlin .

Awards

• 1984 Rauris Literature Prize
• 1999 Schiller Prize from Zürcher Kantonalbank
• 2003 Contribution to the Pro Helvetia Foundation
• 2005 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2008 Prix ​​Médicis étranger for Un garçon parfait ( A perfect waiter , translation: Johannes Honigmann )
• 2009 Prix des auditeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande for Un garçon parfait
• 2009 Hermann Hesse Prize for private lessons
• 2013 Culture Prize of the City of Basel
• 2014 Literature Prize from the Free German Association of Authors

Works

• The adult framework . Novel. List, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-471-78622-8
• Bergelson . Narrative. List, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-471-78626-0
• The artist room . Stories. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-95580-1
• The Siamese Brothers . Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-608-95702-2
• Primal mine . Novel. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-93447-2
• Anna's mask . Novella. Epoca, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-905513-23-4 ; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-45785-3
• A perfect waiter . Novel. Epoca, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-905513-36-6 ; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-45741-1
• Private lessons . Novel. Epoca, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-905513-43-1 ; Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-46111-2
• At the wrong time . Novel. Galiani, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-019-8
• Out of joint . Novel. Galiani, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86971-059-4
• Basel . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50252-7
• Postscript . Novel. Galiani, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86971-115-7
• The youth is a foreign country . Galiani, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86971-150-8
• Unsustainable conditions . Galiani, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86971-194-2

Editing

• The literary menu . Insel, Frankfurt am Main:
  • Volume 1, compiled by Eckart Witzigmann , 1997, ISBN 3-458-16875-3
  • Volume 2, compiled by Heinz Winkler , 1998, ISBN 3-458-16929-6
• Antonius Anthus : Lectures on the art of eating . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-8218-4578-3

Translations

• Jean Echenoz : A Malaysian riot . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-95546-1
• Julien Green : Diaries 1926–1942 . List, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-471-77665-6 (therein: 1935–1939)
• Julien Green: Diaries 1943–1954 . List, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-471-77667-2 (therein: 1943–1945)
• Jules Renard : The maid Ragotte . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-95342-6
• Daniel Stauben : A Journey to the Jews in the Country . Ölbaum, Augsburg 1986, ISBN 3-9800983-4-6

Web links

Commons : Alain Claude Sulzer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Publications by and about Alain Claude Sulzer in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Alain Claude Sulzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Alain Claude Sulzer in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Website of Alain Claude Sulzer
• Short biography and reviews of works by Alain Claude Sulzer at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://alainclaudesulzer.ch/vita.html , accessed on December 4, 2014
2. ^ Berlin shines by Alain Claude Sulzer, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 23 January 2012
3. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (August 25, 2019)