Night Train to Lisbon
Author Peter Bieri aka Pascal Mercier died
The Swiss writer Peter Bieri aka Pascal Mercier at the film premiere of “Nachtzug nach Lisbon” (2013). photo
© Marcel Bieri/epa Keystone/dpa
His best-known novel is the bestseller “Night Train to Lisbon”. The writer was 79 years old.
The Swiss writer Peter Bieri, who became known under his alias Pascal Mercier, is dead. This was announced by Hanser Verlag. The 79-year-old is known for his novel “night train to Lisbon”, which appeared in 2004. According to a spokeswoman, he died in Berlin, where he last lived.
His last novel “Weight of Words” was published in 2020. “We are losing a great thinker and novelist,” said publisher Jo Lendle. “Peter Bieri has shown in his own name and under his nom de plume all his life how thoughts and stories inspire each other: The philosopher learned from the narrator – and vice versa, his novels bring the great questions of humanity to life. His books remain. We are thank him for it.”