Alain Claude Sulzer

Alain Claude Sulzer (born 17 February 1953) is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including the NZZ. He has published more than ten books and has won several literary awards in the process, such as the Rauris Literature Prize (1984), or the Hermann-Hesse-Preis (2009).