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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss playwright and novelist writing in German, one of the leading dramatists of the post-war period. His tragicomedies The Visit (1956) and The Physicists (1962) use grotesque situations to expose greed, guilt and the dangers of science, and his detective novels such as The Judge and His Hangman were also widely read.
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