For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
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.
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between wistfully condenses the problems...