Alain Claude Sulzer was born in Basel in 1953. Alongside his translations from French into German, he has published eight books since 1983 (novels and stories). He won the highly acclaimed Prix Medicis Etranger and the Prix des Auditeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande for A PERFECT WAITER, which is translated into ten languages. His novel AUS DEN FUGEN was published to rave reviews and reached the top of the Swiss bestseller list. It was also nominated for the Schweizer Buchpreis 2012 and was published in English in 2014. POSTSKRIPTUM, a novel, was published in 2015 by Galiani in Germany, Sellerio Editore in Italy, and Editions Jacqueline Chambon in France, where it was longlisted for the Prix Femina 2016. His memoir of his youth in Switzerland, DIE JUGEND IST EIN FREMDES LAND, was published in September 2017 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. His novel UNHALTBARE ZUSTAENDE (INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS) was published by Galiani in 2019, followed by DOPPELLEBEN (DOUBLE LIVES), a novel about the Goncourt brothers, in September 2022.
His novella FAST WIE EIN BRUDER was published by Galiani on 15 August 2024.