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Markus Werner
Bio
Markus Werner was born in Switzerland in 1944. He studied at the University of Zurich, then taught at a school in Schaffhausen until 1990 when he became a freelance writer. His prestigious literary awards include the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung prize (1984), the Prix littéraire Lipp (1995), and the SWF Bestenliste prize in 1997. He has published seven novels, including the bestselling Zündel's Departure.Robert E. Goodwin is a member of the faculty at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He is the author of The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama and translator of Rüdiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. He currently lives in upstate New York.