Markus Werner

Markus Werner (1944–2016) was a Swiss writer. His first novel, Zündel’s Departure, was published in 1984 to instant acclaim, and he went on to write six more books. He is the recipient of the Joseph Breitbach Prize and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Swiss Schiller Foundation.

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