Peter Stamm author biography, plus links to books by Peter Stamm.

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Peter Stamm

Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Weinfelden, Switzerland. He is the author of the novel Agnes, and numerous short stories and radio plays. His novels Unformed Landscape and On A Day Like This ,and the collection In Strange Gardens and Other Stories are available from Other Press. He lives outside of Zurich.

Michael Hofmann has translated the works of many writers, including Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and Peter Stephan Jungk. He is also the author of several books of poetry and a book of essays, Behind the Lines , and is the editor of the anthology Twentieth-Century German Poetry . He lives in Gainesville, Florida and London.

This biography was last updated on 03/22/2011.

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