Enrico Danieli

The title of this article is ambiguous. Enrico Danieli was also a pseudonym of the singer Enrico Tamberlik .

Enrico Danieli (born September 2, 1952 in Zurich ) is a Swiss doctor and writer .

Life

Enrico Danieli studied (after four semesters of German studies) human medicine at the University of Zurich and practiced as a specialist in general medicine in Zurich's Seefeld district for 20 years .

He has also written a number of novels and short stories as a prose writer . Danieli has lived as a freelance writer in Ticino since he retired as a doctor in 2005 .

In 1995 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . He is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland .

Awards

• 1993 Gerhard Fritsch Literature Prize
• 1994 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
• 1995 Hans-Erich-Nossack-Prize sponsorship award
• 1996 Literature Prize for Work and Everyday Life from the Swiss Trade Union Education Center

Works

• Travel to Striland . Narrative. Müller, Salzburg 1993
• Shadow of the night . Prose. Müller, Salzburg 1994
• The peace of the world on the Gäbris . Novella. Müller, Salzburg 1997
• Calendar stories . Appenzeller, Herisau 1998
• The Rapp. A memory . Müller, Salzburg 1998
• Like a prism . Novella. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 1998
• Concert for an angel . Appenzeller, Herisau 2000
• Michaele or Heaven is a big hole . Appenzeller, Herisau 2001
• Villa Leon . Novel. Appenzeller, Herisau 2003
• Suvretta. A fantasy in 5 sentences . Utz, Munich 2004
• Delaval . Novella. Utz, Munich 2006
• Meret . Novel. Utz, Munich 2007
• The dead of Mergoscia . Novel. Utz, Munich 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Enrico Danieli in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Enrico Danieli in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• «The fate keeps me warm» A portrait of Erhard Taverna from the Swiss Medical Journal 8/2005 ( PDF file ; 250 kB)