The Swiss List

The Swiss List in partnership with Seagull Books is an effort to bring Swiss literature to readers around the world.

With the latest addition to the Swiss List published by Seagull Books, the number of books in English by Swiss writers now on the stands is twenty-six.

The publication of the Swiss List in partnership with Seagull Books is an effort to bring Swiss literature to readers around the world. An extension of the initiative «Moving Words», the Swiss List has had demonstrable impact. Audiences across the globe now have access to Swiss Literature and literary translators from varying nationalities have had the opportunity to network and engage with Swiss writers. The number of translations of Swiss literature will continue to increase, with Seagull Books looking at publishing another few titles by year end. Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council supports translation.

The Swiss List comprises of the following titles:

An Answer from the Silence, a Story from the Mountains by Max Frisch
Translated by Mike Mitchell

All the Roads are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole

Collected Poems by Rainer Brambach
Translated by Esther Kinsky

Correspondence by Frisch Dürrenmatt’s
Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte

Death in Persia by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated by Lucy Renner Jones

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook by Max Frisch
Translated by Mike Mitchell

Efina by Nöelle Revaz
Translated by David Ball and Nicole Ball

Fly Away, Pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji
Translated by Tess Lewis

In the Congo by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal McLaughlin

Invitation to the Bold of Heart by Dorothee Elmiger
Translated by Cathy Derbyshire

Like Bits of Wind by Pierre Chappuis
Translated by John Taylor

Lyric Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated by Lucy Renner Jones

Mr Adamson by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal McLaughlin

My Mother’s Lover by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal Mc Laughlin

My Father’s Book by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal Mc Laughlin

Noah by Hugo Loetscher
Translated by Samuel P. Willcocks

Obscurity by Philippe Jaccottet
Translated by Tess Lewis

On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal McLaughlin

Privy Portrait by Jean-Luc Benoziglio
Translated by Tess Lewis

Seedtime Notebooks, 1954–79 by Philippe Jaccottet
Translated by Tess Lewis

Selected Essays by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole

Stigmata of Bliss: Three Novellas by Klaus Merz
Translated by Tess Lewis

The Blue Soda Siphon by Urs Widmer
Translated by Donal McLaughlin

The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons by Monica Cantieni
Translated by Donal McLaughlin

The Pilgrim’s Bowl by Giorgio Morandi
Translated by John Taylor

The Spirits of the Earth by Catherine Colomb
Translated by John Taylor