Supino
Franco

Biography

Born in Solothurn in 1965, he grew up bilingual as the child of Italian parents. He studied German and Romance languages and literature in Zurich and Florence, graduating with a thesis on Günter Eich. Since 2007 he has been a lecturer in German and didactics at the University of Teacher Education (FHNW). He is married, father of two children and lives in Solothurn. 2023 he has been awarded the Solothurn Art Prize.

Author website

• www.francosupino.ch/

Publishers

• Rotpunktverlag

Books

• Spurlos in Neapel, novel, Rotpunktverlag Zürich 2022
• Solothurn liegt am Meer, Essays & Speeches, knapp Verlag, Olten 2009 (3. ext. and ed. edition 2017)
• Das andere Leben, novel, Rotpunktverlag Zürich 2008.
• Ciao amore, ciao, novel, Rotpunktverlag, Zürich 2004 (2. edition 2005)
• Gesang der Blinden, novel, Nagel & Kimche, Zürich 1999
• Die Schöne der Welt oder Der Weg zurück, novel, Nagel & Kimche, Zürich/Frauenfeld 1997; new edition, Rotpunktverlag 2009.
• Musica leggera. novel, Rotpunktverlag, Zürich 1995 (5. edition 2010)

Books for children and young adults

• Mino und die Kinderräuber, children’s novel, Baeschlin Verlag 2019 (2. edition 2020)
• Hau ab, Bruderherz. Narration for young adults, Da bux, Buchs 2017 (3. edition 2018)
• Wasserstadt. Träume, Geld und Wirklichkeit. Young adult novel. Kwasi-Verlag, Solothurn 2013
• Linas Stein, picture story, illustrated by Maria Stalder. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zürich 2013 (also availabel in French and Retoroman)
• Die Wilderer der Maremma, adventure story, illustrated by Hannes Binder. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zürich 2007

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