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Christine Lötscher in «New Books in German», Issue 19, Spring 2006

«And yet almost all Swiss publishers share common ground. It is hard to live purely from the domestic market, so few of them can (or wish to) live from Swiss Literature alone – with one outstanding exception: Ricco Bilger.

Perhaps the most eccentric of all Swiss publishers. The head of bilgerverlag (Zurich), he devotes body and soul to his authors, without a glance at potential sales figures – he\'s not one to dhy away from risk. Not least in his role as founder of the successful Leukerbad Literature Festival, he has succeeded in generating a growing interest in his books, transcending the natural borders in the process. Katharina Faber\'s debut \"Manchmals sehe ich am Himmel einen endlos weiten Strand\" (Sometimes I see in the Sky an Endless Stretch of Shore\'s), was lauded by the critics in Germany, too.»





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