Widmer Urs
Born on 21.5.1938 in Basel, died on 2.4.2014 in Zurich. Studied German, Romance languages and literature and history in Basel, Montpellier and Paris. 1966 doctorate with a thesis on German post-war prose, then editor at Walter Verlag (Olten) and 1967/68 at Suhrkamp Verlag in Frankfurt, freelance writer since 1968, in Frankfurt until 1984, then returned to Switzerland.