Max Frisch

Swiss novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist, who began his career as an architect before achieving fame with the play When the War Was Over in 1949. However, Frisch's first books appeared in the 1930s.

In his early works Frisch dealt with the post-war guilt and origins of Nazism, and continued with existential questions of identity and personal freedom.

Frisch's best-known plays include Andorra (1961) and Biedermann and die Brandstifter (1958).

In his novels Frisch has often brought to the fore the difference between the narrator's world and the reader's interpretation of it.