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James Reidel Translator & Author

Robert Walser (1878–1956) was a German-speaking Swiss writer who produced as many as seven novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces. Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet who writes in English and has published a selection of Walser’s verse translated from German. James Reidel is a poet, biographer, and translator who has also translated the works by Thomas Bernhard, Georg Trakl, and Franz Werfel.