Lisa Elsässer was born in 1951 in Bürglen in the Swiss canton of Uri. She has trained in various professions, amongst others as a librarian and a bookseller. She has achieved a number of distinctions in her literary work; her most recent publications are Die Finten der Liebe (Love’s Deceptions, short stories, 2011) and Da war doch was(There Really Was Something There, poems, 2013).
Lisa Elsässer / Switzerland
