Biography

Stefan Bachmann is a bestselling author of books and short stories. He was born in Colorado and spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, where he graduated from the Zürich University of Arts with degrees in music composition and theory. His debut, The Peculiar, was published to international acclaim when he was nineteen years old. His works have gone on to be named a Publishers Weekly’s best book of the year, a VOYA Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award finalist, and a CYBILS Award finalist, among others.

In 2017, he was chosen for the Aarhus 39, a selection of the best young writers in Europe, presented at the International Hay Festival in Denmark. As of 2022 he is co-president of Autillus, the Swiss association of children’s authors and illustrators. He has written for radio, film, opera, magazines and newspapers, and his work has been published in over fifteen countries.

After stints in Berlin, Prague, and Tokyo, he currently lives and writes in a small town on the Dutch border, at the foot of a medieval castle, surrounded by books and plants.