Angst and Alienation: Peter Stamm

Born in Weinfelden, Switzerland, in 1963, Peter Stamm ranks today as one of his homeland’s leading contemporary authors of fiction. He was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In the English-speaking world, Stamm is best known for his novels, all of which have been translated from German by Michael Hofmann, including: Agnes (1998), Unformed Landscape (2001), On a Day Like This (2006), Seven Years (2009), All Days Are Night (2013), and To the Back of Beyond (2016), The Sweet Indifference of the World (2018).