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Hugo Loetscher

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Hugo Loetscher

Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009) regularly travelled to Latin America, South East Asia and the USA after 1965, before working as a freelance writer and publicist from 1969 onwards. He was a guest professor at the University of Fribourg, the University of South Carolina and the City University of New York, as well as member of the Darmstadt Academy for Language and Literature. In 1992 he was awarded with the ›Schiller Prize‹ by the Swiss Writers’ Foundation. Hugo Loetscher's books have been published in 18 languages.

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»Hugo Loetscher is a wonderful narrator whose formulation of weighty thoughts is as light as a feather.«Sonntags Zeitung

»Loetscher, whose literature embraces journalistic know-how and foreign experience, is the most cosmopolitan of all Swiss writers.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Hugo Loetscher

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