Martin R. Dean

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Martin R. Dean (born July 17, 1955 in Menziken/Aargau) is a Swiss writer.

1 Life
2 Awards
3 Works
4 External links

[edit] Life

He was born in Menziken as a son of parents who had Indian origins: a Swiss mother and a medic from Trinidad. In 1976, he attained his university entrance diploma at grammar school in Aarau. In 1977, he began his German studies, and philosophy studies, and ethnology studies at the university of Basel (Universität Basel). In 1986, he finished his studies with a licentiate work about Hans Henny Jahnn’s novel "Perrudja". He has the rating summa cum laude.

He traveled a lot and lived abroad for many years, e.g. in South America, Portugal, France, Greece and Italy. From 1990 to 1998, he taught at the Schule für Gestaltung (literally: School for Design) in Basel, and from 1999, the subject German and philosophy at the grammar school in Muttenz. In 1995, he married the specialist in german studies, Dr. Silvia Henke, with whom he has a daughter.

Dean lives and works as a free writer and publicist in Basel.

[edit] Awards

1983 „Rauriser Literaturpreis“ for Die verborgenen Gärten
1988/89 Stipend at “Istituto Svizzero” in Rome
1994 Complete work price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation
1997 Guest lecturer as "Poet in residence" at the “Gesamthochschule Essen”
2003 Single work price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation

[edit] Works

Die verborgenen Gärten, novel, 1982
Die gefiederte Frau. Fünf Variationen über die Liebe, 1984
Der Mann ohne Licht, novel, 1988
Außer mir. Ein Journal, 1990
Der Guayanaknoten, novel, 1994
Die Ballade von Billie und Joe, novel, 1997
Monsieur Fume oder Das Glück der Vergeßlichkeit, 1998
Meine Väter, novel, 2003
Zwischen Fichtenbaum und Palme. Kommentierte Textsammlung für den interkulturellen Deutschunterricht an Mittelschulen, 2005