The Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives in Zurich have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register. The decision by the Executive Board of UNESCO acknowledges the collections' ...
A new television adaptation of Heidi, Switzerland’s most iconic literary character, is in development 145 years after Johanna Spyri’s beloved novel was first published. According to reporting by ...
What a 19th-century Swiss novel, and a young fan’s pilgrimage to the Alps, taught me about fatherhood. By Dave Kim Dave Kim is an editor at the Book Review. I went to the Alps in August because my son ...
Johanna Spyri’s first story, A Leaf on Vrony’s Grave, was published in 1873 and deals with domestic violence. However, the Swiss author is best known for Heidi, a novel for children that she wrote in ...