What is Urs Widmer?
{{Infobox writer | image = Urs-widmer-2012-ffm-066.jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = | caption = Urs Widmer in April 2012 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|05|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|04|02|1938|05|21|df=yes}} | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = [[Novelist]], [[essayist]], [[playwright]] | language = [[German language|German]] | nationality = [[Switzerland|Swiss]] | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1968–2013 | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = {{Plainlist| * [[Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden]] (1976) * [[Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis]] (1997) * [[Schweizer Literaturpreise]] (2014) }} | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Urs Widmer''' (21 May 1938 &ndash; 2 April 2014) was a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[novelist]], [[playwright]], [[essayist]] and [[short story]] writer. He wrote for several different [[newspaper]]s and other publications. He was best known for his 2000 [[book]] ''Der Geliebte der Mutter'' (The Mother's Lover). In 2013, he won the [[Friedrich Hölderlin Prize]]. He was born in [[Basel]]. Widmer died after a long illness on 2 April 2014 in [[Zürich]]. He was 75 years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Most_versatile_and_successful_Swiss_author_dies.html?cid=38310038|title=‘Most versatile and successful’ Swiss author dies|work=[[swissinfo]]|date=3 April 2014|accessdate=4 April 2014|archive-date=7 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085233/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Most_versatile_and_successful_Swiss_author_dies.html?cid=38310038|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other website