About the book:
She leaves behind three children and a hyphen. She leaves the author her friends, her library, her unease. Nora Gomringer writes after her as a missing daughter, as an angry woman, as a silenced poet and wonders how little she allows herself to be summoned when she, as a daughter, wants to be. The mother has - now heavenly - finally emancipated herself. Gomringer writes about her multifaceted mother, her wisdom and humor, her husband, the matter of the guinea pigs and herself.

"Am Meerschwein übt das Kind den Tod" is an unsparingly open, yet poetically broken book about saying goodbye to one's mother, remembering and the question of how grief can be transformed into language. It tells of a multifaceted, courageous, artistic and uncomfortable mother and a daughter who follows her through writing - groping, doubting, contradictory.

About the author:
Nora Gomringer, born in 1980, is Swiss and German. She is a poet, filmmaker and writes and speaks for radio, television and feature articles. In 2015 she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, in 2022 the Else Lasker-Schüler Prize and most recently in 2025 she was awarded the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor. Nora Gomringer lives in Bamberg, where she is director of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia.