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Jorge Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was born into an intellectual family in Buenos Aires, in 1899. During his youth, the family lived in several countries including Spain and Switzerland. Because of his…
Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in December 1969 and educated in Switzerland and England. He speaks French, German and English and now lives in London. His family…
Donna Leon
…Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice….
Once Is Not Enough
by Jacqueline Susann“[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. With her formula of sex, drugs and show business, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict…
Stephen Batchelor
Stephen Batchelor, the author of Alone with Others, was born in Scotland and was educated in Buddhist monasteries in India, Switzerland, and Korea. He was a monk for ten years…
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born in 1921 in the village of Konolfingen, near Berne, Switzerland, and was the son of a Protestant minister. He has long been considered one of the…
Agota Kristof
Ágota Kristóf was born in Hungary in 1935, and moved to Switzerland when she was 21. Besides the three-part novel for which she is best-known — The Notebook, The Proof,…
Pascal Mercier
A professor of philosophy, Pascal Mercier was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland. He is the author of Perlmann’s Silence and Night Train to Lisbon. He currently lives in Berlin….
Patricia Highsmith
…life. Some of her most important works include Deep Water (1957), This Sweet Sickness (1960), and The Cry of the Owl (1962). Highsmith died of leukemia in Switzerland, in 1995….
Uniform Justice
by Donna Leon“Leon is probably the best mystery writer you’ve never heard of. . . . She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual…
