Robert Walser (1878–1956) was born into a German-speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the “prose pieces” that became his hallmark. NYRB Classics also publishes Walser’s Jakob von Gunten , Berlin Stories and A Schoolboy’s Diary and Other Stories.
Tom Whalen is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, and the co-editor of the Robert Walser issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction.
Nicole Köngeter is a freelance translator and teacher of English and German in southwest Germany.
Annette Wiesner’s translations of Robert Walser have appeared in Connecticut Review, Kestrel, and Witness.
