Rolf Lappert was born in Zurich in 1958 and lives in Switzerland. He trained as a graphic designer and later founded a jazz club, then worked from 1996 to 2004 as a scriptwriter. In 2008, Hanser published his novel, Nach Hause schwimmen (Swimming Home), which was nominated for the German Book Prize that year and won the Swiss Book Prize. Hanser also published his novel Auf den Inseln des letzten Lichts (Islands of the Dying Light, 2010,) his Young Adult book Pampa Blues (2012) and über den Winter (2015) which was also nominated for the German Book Prize.
What a story! The writer of "Nach Hause schwimmen" (Swimming Home) has produced his opus magnum
A back-to-nature commune in the 1980s. The authorities discover four children who are ...
Lennard Salm is fifty. He’s at least halfway successful as an artist but he’s a man at odds with his life. Over the course of a clear and sparkling winter he comes to discover that no one is ...
moreSixteen-year-old Ben is trapped in Wingroden, a backwater which has nothing to offer but an old petrol station, a grocery shop, a flooded gravel pit, a few regulars in the local pub, and Anna, ...
moreEven as a little girl, Megan loved animals above all other things. So it’s hardly surprising that she grows up to become a militant animal rights activist. By contrast, her brother Tobey’s ...
moreIf you don't ask to be born, Wilbur reasons, you should be allowed to go back where you came from. Rolf Lappert tells the story of a man who, in refusing life, learns how to live. A wonderful ...
more"Seit seinem Roman 'Nach Hause schwimmen' gilt er weithin als Kultautor. Seine Bücher sprechen aus, was viele denken und fühlen." Martin Halter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 02.02.21
2013 Goldene Leslie
2013 Nominierung für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis
2013 Nominierung für den Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendmedienpreis
2012 Beste 7 Bücher für junge Leser, Deutschlandfunk
2012 Beste 7 Bücher für junge Leser, Deutschlandfunk
2012 Kinder- und Jugendbuchliste (Radio Bremen & SR)
2012 Luchs des Monats (Die Zeit & Radio Bremen)
2012 Buch des Monats Dt. Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
2012 Empfehlungsliste STUBE
2012 Für Sie getestet - Stiftung Lesen
2012 Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis der Stadt Oldenburg
2012 kulturelle Auszeichnung der Stadt Zürich 2012
2008 Schweizer Buchpreis
2008 Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises
1995 Preis der Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung
