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Peter Stamm

Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Scherzingen, Switzerland. He is the author of the novels Agnes, On A Day Like This, Unformed Landscape and the collection In Strange Gardens and Other Stories, as well as numerous short stories and radio plays. He lives in Winterthur.

Publications

Fiction In Translation

We're Flying

Peter Stamm

£9.99
Fiction In Translation

To the Back of Beyond

Peter Stamm

£8.99
Fiction In Translation

The Sweet Indifference of the World

Peter Stamm

£12.99
Fiction In Translation

Seven Years

Peter Stamm

£8.99
Books

All Days Are Night

Peter Stamm

£8.99

Peter Stamm on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

On Europe | Peter Stamm

Peter Stamm

Peter Stamm on the Swiss referendum to join the EU. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Peter Stamm & Michael Hofmann

Peter Stamm on the oldest barber in Switzerland, and Michael Hofmann on translating Peter Stamm.

Granta Books Writing | The Online Edition
Granta Books Writing | The Online Edition

Peter Stamm on To the Back of Beyond

Peter Stamm & Luke Neima

Peter Stamm on the drive of freedom in literature, German Romanticism and narrational technique.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Edinburgh Book Festival Special | Podcast

Kapka Kassabova & Peter Stamm

In this special Edinburgh Book Festival edition of the Granta Podcast Laura Barber talks to Kapka Kassabova (Street Without a Name, Twelve Minutes of Love) and Peter Stamm (Seven Years) about the often paradoxical relationship between writing and place.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Peter Stamm | Podcast

Peter Stamm & Ted Hodgkinson

Peter Stamm on imagining his characters as buildings, why he wants to have a room full of ugly objects and whether he believes that people can change.

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