Switzerland’s diverse literature

Luisa Famos’s poignant, inspiring works evoke memories of her Engadine homeland as well as her encounters in Latin America

Germaine de Staël, of Genevan origin, was a woman of letters and a leading intellectual who lived in Paris but had to flee to exile in Switzerland…

“It was going to be the best possible day. Vreni didn’t care about the fog that had been smothering the farm since Friday...”.

Switzerland was quite a precarious, dangerous, volatile, backward place in the first half of the 19^th century. The country was in the mire and sinking…

Social change is breeding a new form of “home literature”, with Switzerland having long metamorphosed from a country of emigrants into a country of…

For 171 years, the Swiss government has been in office without a single day’s interruption. The whole government is never replaced at once, it is…