Paul Nizon

Paul Nizon was born on 19 December 1929 in Bern, the son of a chemist and inventor from Eastern Europe. He studied art history in Bern and Munich and defended a thesis on Van Gogh in 1957. An assistant at the Bern historical museum and a scholarship holder in Rome, he headed the art criticism section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1961, then devoted himself to writing. He settled in Paris in 1977, in a small flat inherited from an aunt, and remained there. He has been made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

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• NovelDas Jahr der LiebePaul Nizon · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature