Daniel Zahno

Daniel Zahno (born November 18, 1963 in Basel ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Daniel Zahno studied German and English at the University of Basel ; he completed his studies with a thesis on the symbolism of the butterfly in literature. In 1996 he published his award-winning first work, the volume of short stories Doctor Turban . Critics saw it as "stories that get under your skin" and "a desire for language that awakens the desire to read" (NZZ). In 2002 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . In 2006 the book “Im Hundum Turn” - “astute, imaginative language games” (NZZ) was published.

Zahno's first novel "Die Gelatiere" (2009), a Venetian romance novel about the ice cream maker Alvise and his beloved Noemi, was received with great interest and overwhelmingly enthusiastically. The “magically relaxed narrative tone” (Weltwoche) and the “prancing limbo” (NZZ) of the text were highlighted. The love and job happiness of the main character immediately turns into reading happiness. "In his debut novel, the Swiss Daniel Zahno tells this dreamy love story in a light and melancholy way" (Der Spiegel).

Daniel Zahno lives as an author in Basel. He is a member of the Swiss Authors ' Association . In 2003 he was a guest at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in Venice. In 2004 he made a reading tour through the Baltic States, in 2007 one through the USA (Chicago, San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Baltimore). In 2010 he was Writer-in-Residence at the German House of New York University.

Awards

• 1996 Würth Literature Prize
• 1997 Clemens Brentano Prize from the City of Heidelberg
• 1997 sponsorship award for the Hans-Erich-Nossack-Prize
• 1999 Prize of the Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation
• 1999 Freiburg Literature Prize
• 2003 Hard Literature Prize
• 2010 Writer-in-Residence at New York University, Deutsches Haus

Works

• Doctor Turban , Erzählungen, Bruckner & Thünker, Cologne 1996 (as paperback at btb, Munich 1998)
• In the dog turn , Tisch7-Verlag, Cologne 2006
• The Gelatiere's Beloved , Roman, weissbooks.w , Frankfurt am Main 2009
• Rot wie die Nacht , Roman, weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2010
• Everyone loves Alexia , weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2011
• Manhattan Rose , Roman, weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main, 2013
• Wandererführer , The most beautiful tours around Basel, Reinhardt Verlag, Basel, 2015
• Wanderverführer , The most beautiful tours around Basel, Volume 2, Reinhardt Verlag, Basel, 2016
• Mama Mafia , Roman, Schöffling & Co, 2017.

Scattered publications

• Carlotti , in: Swiss Made , Wagenbach, Berlin 2001.
• Deauville , in: BELLA triste No. 6, Hildesheim 2003.
• Der Gelatiere , in: manuscripts No. 168, Graz 2005.
• Müüchgaffibrunn , in: In the whole country beautiful , Limmat, Zurich 2006.
• Dui , in: igajanumenechligaluege , Limmat, Zurich 2007.
• Blue Moon , in: I'm at home in a few places , weissbooks.w, Frankfurt, 2010
• A Maestro from Misox , in: How big is the world and how quiet is it here , weissbooks.w, Frankfurt, 2014

Translations

• Carlotti , in: Young Swiss Writers , edited by Romey Sabalius and Michael Wutz, Special Issue of Dimension2 , Texas 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Zahno in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website