In focus

Ulrich Becher

Ulrich Becher

Ulrich Becher was a German playwright and novelist. His most famous work is the exile novel «Murmeljagd». Part of his estate is held in the Swiss Literary Archives.
Franco Beltrametti

Franco Beltrametti

Franco Beltrametti is considered one of the most important Swiss authors of the “Beat Generation”. His estate in the Swiss Literary Archives is an important resource for studies into alternative cultural movements internationally.
Portrait of Donata Berra

Donata Berra

Donata Berra (1947) is a poet, translator and lecturer. The papers in her literary archive testify to the genesis of her poetry and literary translations, as well as their reviews and extensive correspondence with other authors.
Cla Biert

Cla Biert

Cla Biert è stà in trubadur e narratur rumantsch. El ha publitgà numerus raquints ed il roman «La müdada». Dapi il 1992 vegn ses relasch conservà en l’Archiv svizzer da litteratura.
Bollack Family, Photo: Swiss National Library, Simon Schmid

Jean Bollack

A philologist, philosopher and critic born in Alsace of Jewish heritage, Jean Bollack was a scholar of the philosophers, Greek tragedy, and German and French literature.
Georges Borgeaud

Georges Borgeaud

Georges Borgeaud (1914–1998) settled in France in 1946, having previously worked as a private tutor and bookseller in Switzerland and Belgium. He is the author of novels (“Le Voyage à l’étranger”) as well as numerous articles and chronicles on painting.
Porträt Hermann Burger

Hermann Burger

Hermann Burger (1942–89) was a Swiss writer. His most important works include “Schilten” and “Die künstliche Mutter”. His estate is held in the Swiss Literary Archives.
Erika Burkart

Erika Burkart

Erika Burkart (1922−2010) is one of the most important poets to have written in the German language. In addition to numerous volumes of poetry, she also published a number of works in prose. Her visual idiom draws heavily on nature.
Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars (1887−1961) was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Granted French citizenship in recognition of his having volunteered in the First World War, he is the author of a diverse oeuvre: poetry, novels, journalism and “memoirs that aren’t memoirs”.
Alice Ceresa

Alice Ceresa

Alice Ceresa was an Italian-speaking Swiss author who lived in Rome. Her estate is held in the Swiss Literary Archives.
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