Hugo Loetscher

Hugo Loetscher was born on 22 December 1929 in Zurich, the son of a blacksmith. He studied political science, sociology and literature in Zurich and Paris, and in 1956 defended a thesis on postwar French political philosophy. An editor at the magazine Du from 1958 to 1962, then on the culture pages of the Weltwoche from 1964 to 1969, he afterwards lived by his pen. He travelled in Latin America from the sixties onwards, Brazil above all. A friend of Dürrenmatt and of the painter Varlin, he presided over the Swiss Writers' Association from 1986 to 1989 and died in Zurich on 18 August 2009.

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• NovelAbwässerHugo Loetscher · 1963not translated into EnglishLiterature