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Urs Widmer (May 21, 1938 – April 2, 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist and a short story writer. Widmer was born in Basel in 1938, and for many years lived in Zurich.〔 Widmer studied German, French and history at the universities of Basel and Montpellier.〔 After completing his PhD, he worked briefly as an editor at ''Suhrkamp Verlag'', but left the publishing house during the Lektoren-Aufstand (‘Editors’ Revolt’) of 1968.〔 In 2014, Roman Bucheli, Literary Editor of the ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', said that Widmer: :"is without doubt one of the most significant and versatile talents currently at work in the field of contemporary German-language literature as well as one of the most successful. His sales are invariably in the high five-figure bracket"〔 ==Awards and honors== *1977 Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden, ''Fernsehabend'' *1992 Preis der SWR-Bestenliste *1997 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis, ''Top Dogs'' *1998 Heimito von Doderer Prize *2001 Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize *2002 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste〔 *2013 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Urs Widmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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