Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Friedrich Glauser
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Friedrich Glauser (IMDB)
    -AUTHOR PAGE: Friedrich Glauser (Bitter Lemon Press)
    -BOOK PAGE: The Chinaman (Bitter Lemon Press)
    -EXCERPT: from The Chinaman (Bitter Lemon Press)
    -ETEXT: The Chinaman (PDF)
    -EXCERPT: from Fever by Friedrich Glauser, Translated from German by Mike Mitchell (Words without Borders)
    -The Friedrich Glauser Prize: The Friedrich Glauser Prize (Friedrich-Glauser-Preis, sometimes Friedrich-Glauser-Krimipreis) honors the best crime novel written in German. (Crime Fiction Awards)
    -ENTRY: Glauser, Friedrich (Gadetecteion)
    -ENTRY: Friedrich Glauser (Stop, You're killing Me)
    -ENTRY: Friedrich Glauser (Euro Crime)
    -ENTRY: Biography of Friedrich Glauser (1896-1938) (The Biography)
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    -FIND A GRAVE: Friedrich Glauser
    -INTERVIEW: Mike Mitchell, part I: An interview with Friedrich Glauser's translator (DETECTIVES BEYOND BORDERS, MARCH 24, 2008)

What particularly attracts me about Glauser’s crime novels is the way his detective — Sergeant Studer — understands and sympathises with the disadvantaged, even if his job means he has to continue to investigate them. There is a profound sense of humanity permeating Glauser’s writing, which at the same time throws a keen light on social conditions in Switzerland in the 1930s, but coming across as a concern for individuals rather than as a political message.

You’ve discussed Glauser’s handling of dialect. I’d like you to talk about his use of, say, Bern dialect vs. standard spoken or written German and about the challenges this posed for you as a translator. Were there any passages that were simply untranslatable?

Not untranslatable in the sense of finding it impossible to convey the meaning, but it was very difficult to follow the way the main character switches from local dialect to standard ‘educated’ Swiss to very formal German. Fortunately Glauser himself comments on this at times, so I felt justified in occasionally adding a rider of my own of the type: ‘ ‘’Xxxxx”, said Studer, reverting to his Bernese dialect’, where, say, a remark by Studer in thick dialect is reported without comment.

    -ESSAY: Diverse German criminality: A collection of essays investigating German crime fiction (P. D. Smith, Times Literary Supplement)
    -REVIEW: of The Chinaman by Friedrich Glauser (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of The Chinaman (Karen Meek, Euro Crime)
    -REVIEW: of The Chinaman (Maureen Corrigan, NPR)
    -REVIEW: of The Chinaman (Mostly Fiction Book Reviews)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm by Friedrich Glauser (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Sharon Wheeler, Reviewing the Evidence)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Salonica world lit)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Baso Profundo)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Jenny, Shelf Love)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Moody Sleuth)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Rosemary Herbert, Washington Post)
    -REVIEW: of In Matto's Realm (Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Fever by Friedrich Glauser (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Fever (Karen Meek, Euro Crime)
    -REVIEW: of Fever (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint by Friedrich Glauser (Sarah Dudley, Reviewing the Evidence)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (Karen Chisolm, AustCrimeFiction
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (Barry, Blogging for a Good Book)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (1st Reading)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (PATRICK LENNON, Rap Sheet)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (Harry S. Chou, Large Print Reviews)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (Susanna Yager, The Telegraph)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (View from the Blue House)
    -REVIEW: of Thumbprint (Chris Petit, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of The Three Old Ladies’ Tea by Friedrich Glauser (Ben Beach, GLLI)
    -REVIEW: of The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser ('Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Martin Edwards' Crime Writing Blog)
    -REVIEW: of The Spoke (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of The Spoke (Nina Sankovitch, Medium)
    -REVIEW: of The Spoke (Swiftly Tilting Planet)
    -REVIEW: of The Spoke (Glenn Harper, International Noir Fiction)
    -REVIEW: of The Spoke (Cathi Unsworth, The Guardian)