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Peter Stamm

ペーター・シュタム

Pētā Shutamu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1963-01-18 (Münsterlingen)
Nationality
スイス, スイス人
Languages
German
Residence History
Weinfelden → Zurich → New York → Paris → Scandinavia → Winterthur

Career

Occupations
writer, journalist, accountant
Active Years
1990-2024
Affiliations
Entwürfe für Literatur, Authors of Switzerland
Memberships
Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz (2003-)
Nominations
International Booker Prize nomination (body of work)

Education

University of Zurich
Various / English studies, Business informatics, Psychology, Psychopathology
Country: Switzerland
No degree obtained

Awards

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize
2014
Organization: Town of Bad Homburg
Result: 受賞
Swiss Book Prize
2018
Work: The Sweet Indifference of the World
Result: 受賞
Solothurner Literaturpreis
2018
Result: 受賞
Schiller Prize of the Zürcher Kantonalbank
2017
Organization: Zürcher Kantonalbank
Result: 受賞
Johann-Friedrich-von-Cotta-Literatur- und Übersetzerpreis
2017
Work: To the Back of Beyond
Organization: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Agnes

1998 Novel

A man's story of falling in love.

lovereality
Translations
  • English by Michael Hofmann

Seven Years

2009 Novel

Explores marital conflicts.

marriageloyalty
Translations
  • English by Michael Hofmann

The Sweet Indifference of the World

2018 Novel

Parallel lives story.

fatechoice
Translations
  • English by Michael Hofmann

Bibliography

  • Agnes
  • Black Ice
  • Unformed Landscape
  • In Strange Gardens
  • On a Day Like This
  • We're Flying
  • Seven Years
  • All Days are Night
  • To the Back of Beyond
  • The Sweet Indifference of the World

Translations by Author

  • Susan Musgrave: Dreams are More Real than Bathtubs

Translations of Works

  • English (Michael Hofmann et al., over 30 languages)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
cool and sparse writing style

Legacy

His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages.