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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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Issue No. 15

A Weekend With My Own Death

Gabriela Wiener

TR. Lucy Greaves

feature

Issue No. 15

We all have tombs from which we travel. To reach mine I have to get a lift with some...

poetry

August 2017

From The Dolphin House

Richard O’Brien

poetry

August 2017

Note for the following three poems: In 1965, a bottlenose dolphin christened Peter was the subject of a scientific...

feature

February 2012

Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

Rose McLaren

feature

February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer...

 

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