Friedrich Glauser

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Friedrich Glauser's grave in Zurich
Friedrich Glauser's grave in Zurich

Friedrich Charles Glauser (b. February 4, 1896 in Vienna; d. December 8, 1938 in Genoa) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life, and begun writing his novel Thumbprint while he was an inmate at Waldau, a Swiss insane asylum.

Germany's most prestigious and best-known crime writing award is the Glauser prize.

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[edit] German Originals

  • 1932 - Der Tee der drei alten Damen
  • 1935 - Wachtmeister Studer
  • 1935 - Die Fieberkurve
  • 1936 - Matto regiert
  • 1936 - Gourrama
  • 1937 - Krock & Co.
  • 1938 - Der Chinese
  • 1980 - Morphium

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