Shift Sleepers

Dorothee Elmiger

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Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, Inspectors, artists, musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives of our time and they have conversations about origins and justice; body and state; import and export; homeland and migration. They talk together about happiness, music and death. In shift sleeper, Swiss writer dorothee elmiger has produced a novel that sheds light on the controversial issues of our time, finding a new language for this conversation previously unheard in contemporary German literature.

Dorothee Elmiger

Dorothee Elmiger (born 1985 in Wetzikon) is a Swiss writer. She presently lives in Switzerland. Elmiger is considered one of the most promising young Swiss writers, especially after winning the second Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Kelag Prize, in 2010. After finishing school her primary schooling, Dorothee Elmiger went to New Hampshire before beginning her studies of philosophy and political sciences at the University of Zurich. She received her professional training at the Swiss Institute for Literature in Biel/Bienne and at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where she spent an exchange semester. Elmiger has won several prizes, including the aspekte-Literaturpreis and the Rauris Literature Prize for best literary debut. In 2014, Elmiger received the Hermann-Hesse-Förderpreis for her second novel Schlafgänger, in 2015 she was awarded a Swiss Literature Award by the Federal Office of Culture and the Erich Fried Prize.