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Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel, born in 1935 in Lucerne, became known for his debut collection of stories, And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman (1964) and his first novel, The Seasons (1965), which was awarded the Gruppe 47 Prize. He has since authored more than twenty books and hundreds of columns for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

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A Table is a Table

fiction

March 2017

Peter Bichsel

TR. Lydia Davis

fiction

March 2017

I want to tell a story about an old man, a man who no longer says a word, has a tired face, too tired...

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fiction

March 2015

House Proud

Amelia Gray

fiction

March 2015

It’s harder to leave your burning home after you’ve spent so much time cleaning its floors. Watching those baseboards...

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April 2017

Everywhere and Nowhere

Vahni Capildeo

feature

April 2017

Part of my reluctance to write on citizenship is that as a poet, a worker in delicate, would-be-truthful language,...

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Issue No. 7

Comment is Fraught: A Polemic

Mr Guardianista

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Issue No. 7

When not listening to the phone messages of recently deceased children or smearing those killed in stadium disasters, journalists...

 

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