Background
Markus Hediger was born in Zürich and brought up in Reinach, Aargau.
Markus Hediger was born in Zürich and brought up in Reinach, Aargau.
From 1980 to 1990 he studied French literature, literary criticism and Italian literature at University of Zurich.
At the age of 16 he went to Paris for the first time. In 1979 he met there the Lebanese poet and playwright Georges Schehadé who opened to him new poetical horizons and whom he visited regularly until his death in 1989. In 1996 Markus Hediger published his first book of poetry, Ne retournez pas la pierre.
This was followed by En deçà de la lumière in 2009.
In 2011 he was invited to the International Festival of Rosario (Argentina) and in 2014 to the International Festival of Medellín (Colombia).