Karin Bachmann

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Karin Bachmann (born May 24, 1969 in Biel ) is a bilingual Swiss writer . She lives in Pieterlen near Biel.

Life

She published her first story at the age of eighteen in the SJW Verlag , and in 2011 her ninth SJW issue Hazardous Silence was published . Your SJW booklets have been translated into Romansh and also published in Braille . After spending several months in New Zealand , she began writing in English in 1995. Her texts have been published in “Writing Magazine” and “AQUILA Children's Magazine”. She writes some of her texts in two languages. She first published The Venetian Pearls in English and then translated it into German. She also runs her blog in two languages. In 2013, as a representative of the Autillus Association , she was a member of the jury for the first “Baar Raven”, the sponsorship award for children's and youth literature from the city of Baar . In 2014 she won the “Writing for children competition” at the Swanwick Writers' Summer School in Derbyshire , England, with the short story Shambles . Bachmann lives in Pieterlen.

Works

Novels

  • Monster in the dark . da bux, Buchs 2018, ISBN 978-3-906876-08-5 .
  • The Venetian Pearls . lulu.com, 2014, ISBN 978-1-291-86886-9 (176 pp.).
  • The Venetian pearls . lulu.com, 2014, ISBN 978-1-326-01233-5 (176 pp., original title: The Venetian Pearls . Translated by Karin Bachmann).
  • Dangerous silence . SJW, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7269-0583-5 (in Braille: 2008).
  • The circus affair . SJW, Zurich 2008 (in Braille: 2008).
  • Under suspicion . SJW, Zurich 2005 (in Braille: 2008).
  • Night discovery . SJW, Zurich 2004 (in Braille: 2008).
  • Nocturnal solo effort . SJW, Zurich 2002 (in Braille: 2008).
  • Nocturnal hustle and bustle . SJW, Zurich 1999 (in Braille: 2008).
  • Hot track . SJW, Zurich 1994.
  • The hunt for criminals . SJW, Zurich 1989.
  • The Mateo case . SJW, Zurich 1988.

Short stories

  • To love . In: Mitra Devi , Petra Ivanov (Ed.): Mord in Switzerland 2 . tape 2 . Appenzeller Verlag, Herisau 2016, ISBN 978-3-85882-736-4 , p. 141-156 .
  • Focus . In: Mitra Devi, Petra Ivanov (Ed.): Mord in Switzerland . tape 1 . Appenzeller Verlag, Herisau 2013, ISBN 978-3-85882-653-4 .
  • Serena and the Knights of St. John . In: AQUILA Children's Magazine . 2013, ISSN  0965-4003 .
  • The woman in the dressing gown . In: Alois and Auguste . Huber, Frauenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7193-1514-6 , pp. 283 .
  • A New Beginning . In: The Sensitively Thin Bill of the Shag . Biscuit Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karin Bachmann: Portfolio Karin Bachmann. Autillus , accessed November 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Karin Bachmann. (PDF) Cantonal Library of St. Gallen , p. 8 , accessed on November 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The author from Zealand becomes a member of the jury for the new "Baarer Rabe" literary prize. Bieler Tagblatt , April 30, 2013, accessed on November 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 'Win Your Way to Swanwick' -competition winners are announced. Swanwick Writers' Summer School, September 6, 2014, accessed November 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bachmann, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel / Bienne