Jürg Laederach (20 December 1945 – 19 March 2018) was a Swiss writer. Jürg Laederach was an author of experimental prose as well as plays and radio plays. He has also distinguished himself as a translator from English and French. Awards 1997 Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2005 Italo Svevo Award Works Einfall der Dämmerung, Frankfurt am Main 1974 Im Verlauf einer langen Erinnerung, Frankfurt am Main 1977 Das ganze Leben, Frankfurt am Main 1978 Die Lehrerin verspricht der Negerin wärmere Tränen, Frankfurt am Main 1978 Ein milder Winter, Frankfurt am Main 1978 Wittgenstein in Graz, Frankfurt am Main 1979 Das Buch der Klagen, Frankfurt am Main 1980 Fahles Ende kleiner Begierden, Frankfurt am Main 1981 Proper operation, Frankfurt am Main 1981 69 Arten den Blues zu spielen, Frankfurt am Main 1984 Tod eines Kellners, Frankfurt am Main 1984 (with Andres Müry) Flugelmeyers Wahn, Frankfurt am Main 1986 Körper brennen, Graz 1986 (with Andres Müry) Sigmund oder Der Herr der Seelen tötet seine, Frankfurt am Main 1986 Vor Schrecken starr, Frankfurt am Main 1988 Der zweite Sinn oder Unsentimentale Reise durch ein Feld Literatur, Frankfurt am Main 1988 China, Frankfurt am Main 1990 Emanuel, Frankfurt am Main 1990 Passion, Frankfurt am Main 1993 Eccentric, Kunst und Leben, Frankfurt am Main 1994 Schattenmänner, Frankfurt am Main 1994 Über Robert Walser, Salzburg u.a. 1997 (with William H. Gass) Portrait, Baden/Schweiz 1998 (with Felix von Muralt) In Hackensack, Basel u.a. 2003 Editor Adolf Wölfli: "0 Grad 0/000! Entbrantt von Liebes,=Flammen", Frankfurt am Main 1996 Sources Dariusz Komorowski: Bewegungsästhetik in den Romanen von Jürg Laederach, Würzburg 2002. References External links Jürg Laederach – Editor 1945 births 2018 deaths Swiss male novelists 20th-century Swiss novelists 21st-century Swiss novelists 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers Writers from Basel-Stadt