Gustav Renker
Appearance
Gustav Renker | |
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Born | Vienna | 12 October 1889
Died | 23 July 1967 Langnau im Emmental, Switzerland | (aged 77)
Occupation | Journalist, author |
Genre | literary regionalism |
Gustav Renker (12 October 1889 – 23 July 1967) was an Austrian and Swiss journalist and novelist known for his literary regionalism.
Renker has published over sixty novels, some of which have been made into films. His work is mostly attributable to the anti-modern province literature of the interwar period.[1]
He was the father in law of Heinrich Sutermeister. Part of his literary estate is archived in the Carinthian literary archives in Klagenfurt.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Short biography". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ List of literary estates at the Carinthian literary archives in Klagenfurt
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gustav Renker.
- Gustav Renker in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Gustav Renker at IMDb