Simon Froehling is a Swiss-Australian poet, playwright and author of the critically acclaimed novels Lange Nächte Tag and Dürrst. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and Athens, Greece. A graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute, he periodically returns there as a guest lecturer, while also teaching at the School of Applied Linguistics in Zurich and mentoring at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia, among others.
In 2017, he was Writer in Residence at New York University’s Deutsches Haus. Simon has been nominated for both the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the Swiss Book Award and has received numerous honours, including the Elisabeth Gerter Prize for Short Prose, the Cultural Award of Network – Gay Leadership, the Audience Award of the St. Gallen Theatre Days, the Société Suisse des Auteurs’ Prize for Dramatic Writing, and the Heinz Weder Recognition Award for Poetry.
In addition to writing, he translates theatre and radio plays and works as a freelance dance dramaturge.