Heidi

Auteur

Johanna Spyrl was a prolific writer born in 1827 near Zurich, Switzerland, and is now primarily remembered for Heidi, which was inspired by her upbringing in the Alps. As a child she spent several summers near Chur in
Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

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Heidi is a work of children's fiction published between 1880
and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as
Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned.
It is a novel about the events in the life of a 5-year-old girl in her paternal
grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for
children and those who love children". Heidi is one of the best-selling
books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.