Martin Frank (writer)

Martin Frank (born September 26, 1950 in Bern ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Martin Frank grew up in Bern and from 1956 in Zurich . Between 1969 and 1981 he mainly worked as a professional musician, programmer and translator. From 1970 he stayed several times for longer periods in India , where he learned Hindi , Urdu and Tamil . He has lived and worked in Zurich since 1982. He is married and has two children.

Frank has published numerous novels and short stories that focus on homosexual people. His first work, the Bern German love novel ter fögi isch e souhung, published in 1979, was a bestseller and was filmed in 1998 under the title F. est un salaud . The novel Arun's story , originally published in English, is set at Annamalai University in the southern Indian city of Chidambaram .

In 2001 he received the Book Prize of the City of Bern. He was a member of the Olten group .

Works

prose

• the fögi isch e souhung . Roman (Bern German). Eco, Zurich 1979
  • Revised new edition: Tini, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-9521562-0-5
• Fitted carpet boy . Roman (German). Eco, Zurich 1981
• LoBo . Narration (Bern German). Neighbor of the World, Zurich 1982
• La mort de Chevrolet . Roman (Bern German). Ammann, Zurich 1984
• Six love stories (German). Tini, Zurich 1999
• A small book of the dead (German and English). Edition Dino Simonett, Zurich 2000
• Blind brothers . Two stories (German). With an essay by Wolfgang Proß . Tini, Zurich 2000
• rose x rikki german. entertainment for alienated offspring . Roman (German). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-0344-0130-2
• Ocean of Love. A Carnatic Novel . Roman (English). Aventine Press, Chula Vista 2003
  • German edition: Arun's story . Novel. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86300-106-3

essay

• How is an epic created? In: Future of Literature - Literature of the Future. Contemporary literature and literary studies . Fink, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3907-9

Theatrical performances

• In love with n ass . WP (in French translation) Lausanne, 2004

Radio plays

• Ä beautiful buep since adjö . Radio DRS, 1983

Web links

• Own web presence
• Arun's story in the Männerschwarm publishing house
• Entry about Martin Frank in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Literature by and about Martin Frank in the catalog of the German National Library