Der Narr

by Gabrielle Alioth

"Gabrielle Alioths Narr könnte ein philosophischer Grenzgänger unserer Tage sein, vielleicht ist es neben den historischen Parallelen und der Dichte der Sprache auch dieser Aspekt, der das Buch so lesenswert und faszinierend macht. Und letztendlich ist es sicher auch der Lebensraum der denn wenn der Narr seinen Blick über das Land schweifen lässt, entsteht vor dem geistigen Auge des Lesers die Landschaft Irlands. Ein wunderschönes Buch, das auf weitere Werke dieser Schriftstellerin hoffen lässt." (Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2.11.1990, Maria Ossowski)

187 pages, Hardcover

First published August 12, 2004

About the author

Gabrielle Alioth was born 1955 in Basel, Switzerland, and having studied economics (M.E.) and the history of art worked in econometric forecasting and Operations Research before emigrating to Ireland in 1984.

Her first novel Der Narr (The Fool) was published in 1990. It received the Hamburg literary award for best first novel and was also broadcast as a radio play.

Her eighth and most recent novel The Greek Empress was released in 2011.

Extensive reading tours through Europe, India, Canada and the United States. Member of the Irish delegation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1996 and member of the Swiss delegation in 1998. Swiss writer in residence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1997. Guest lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland) in 2002. 2005/6: Writer in residence at University College Dublin. 2010 artist in residence at the Böllhaus, Achill Island, Ireland and in the atelier of the UNLÖ (Unabhängiges Literaturhaus Niederösterreich), Krems, Austria

Since 2004 lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Since 2010 writing courses at the Literaturhaus Basel and for the Volkshochschule Basel.

Member of the Judging Panel of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009. Member of the PEN Centre of German Speaking Writers Abroad and the AdS - Autoren der Schweiz.