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Born March 24, 1935 • Lucerne • Switzerland
Died March 15, 2025 (aged 89) • Switzerland
Meinrad Inglin
Swiss author
Uwe Johnson
German author
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Gottfried Keller, drawing by R. Leemann, 1842; in the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich
Gottfried Keller
Swiss author
Gotthelf, engraving by C.A. Gonzenbach, after a portrait by J.F. Dietler
Jeremias Gotthelf
Swiss writer
Robert Walser
Swiss writer
Alfred Andersch
German-Swiss writer
Ernst Zahn
Swiss author
Adolf Frey
Swiss writer and historian
Concha Espina de Serna
Spanish author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Tillie Olsen
American author
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
British author and scientist
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Japanese author