Christoph Simon

Christoph Simon is a Swiss writer.
After travelling in the Middle East, Poland, South America, London and New York, he settled in Bern. His first novel, Franz, or Why Antelopes Run in Herds has sold over 10,000 copies, while Planet Obrist was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Zbinden’s Progress is his fourth novel and was translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2012.

Life

Christoph Simon was born in 1972 in Emmental, Switzerland. He attended high school in Thun and the Jazz School in Bern. Later he traveled to Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Poland, South America, London and New York. He broke off his studies in Basel in 1997 and began to write, while doing various temporary jobs. He now lives as a freelance writer in Bern.

Awards

Winner of the Bern Literature Prize 2010.

Works

Novels

trans. Donal McLaughlin. London: And Other Stories, 2012. Viel Gutes zum kleinen Preis Bilger, Zürich 2011.Spaziergänger Zbinden Bilger, Zürich 2010, Planet Obrist Bilger, Zürich 2005, Luna Llena. Bilger, Zürich 2003, Franz oder Warum Antilopen nebeneinander laufen Bilger, Zürich 2001,