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Peter von Matt
was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1937. He is professor emeritus of Modern German Literature in Zurich and formerly held a visiting professorship at Stanford University, California. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt (the German Academy for Language and Poetry). He is regarded as one of the most eminent literary critics working today and has been awarded many prizes, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2005) and Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin (2006).
Previous works include:
Fertig ist das Angesicht. Zur Literaturgeschichte des menschlichen Gesichts (Carl Hanser, 1983); Liebesverrat. Die treulosen in der Literatur (Carl Hanser, 1989); Das Schicksal der Phantasie. Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Carl Hanser, 1994); Verkommene Söhne, mißratene Töchter. Familiendesaster in der Literatur (Carl Hanser, 1995)
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was established by Carl Hanser in 1928 in Munich. Its founder's interests in literature and science are still reflected today and the firm enjoys a reputation for fiction and non-fiction, for both adults and children. Authors include Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Jostein Gaarder, Lars Gustafsson, Milan Kundera, Harry Mulisch, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Botho Strauß, Raoul Chrott, Rafik Schami, Alfred Brendel, Elke Heidenreich and ten Nobel prize-winners, among them Elias Canetti, whose works have been translated into more than twenty different languages.
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