Lukas Bärfuss
2 workspublishing since 2012
Lukas Bärfuss was born on 30 December 1971 in Thun, Switzerland, and writes in German. After a hard youth and a series of odd jobs he qualified as a bookseller and turned to writing full time in 1997. His plays — Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (2003), Der Bus (2005), Öl (2009), Malaga (2010) and Zwanzigtausend Seiten (2012) — are staged throughout the German-speaking world. He is also the author of the novels Hundert Tage (2008), set during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and published in English as One Hundred Days, Koala (2014) and Hagard (2017), as well as several essay collections. He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.
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Lukas Bärfuss was born on 30 December 1971 in Thun, Switzerland, and writes in German. After a hard youth and a series of odd jobs he qualified as a bookseller and turned to writing full time in 1997. His plays — Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (2003), Der Bus (2005), Öl (2009), Malaga (2010) and Zwanzigtausend Seiten (2012) — are staged throughout the German-speaking world. He is also the author of the novels Hundert Tage (2008), set during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and published in English as One Hundred Days, Koala (2014) and Hagard (2017), as well as several essay collections. He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.
Published
2 works · 2012–20182018
- ContactHardcover
2012
- One Hundred DaysPaperback