Klaus MerzKlaus Merz was born in 1945 in Aarau and lives in Unterkulm, Switzerland. He has won many literary awards, including the Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature, the Swiss Schiller Foundation Poetry Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize in 2012. He has ublished over 40 works of poetry and fiction. His latest novel is The Argentinian (Der Argentinier, Haymon, 2009) and his recent collections of verse are Unexpected Development (Unerwarteter Verlauf, Haymon, 2013), Helios Hauls (Helios Transport, Haymon 2016), firm (firma, Haymon 2019) and In the House, Still Light (Noch Licht im Haus, Haymon, 2023). In 2024 Klaus Merz won the Grand Prix for Swiss Literature (Switzerland's highest literary prize). Read More Read Less