Lorena Simmel

b. 1988, is a Swiss author. She has published poetry, novels and essays. Her debut novel Ferymont (2024) has been awarded the Robert Walser Prize.

“Ferymont” is a quiet novel which sensitively faces a reality that hardly seems to play a role in Western Europe. Lorena Simmel gives the people in her novel a voice; she illustrates what goes wrong and highlights what each of us should think about during our next shopping trip.
Jana Bohlmann / SR2