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Friedhof Fluntern (Fluntern Cemetery)
Fluntern, 8044 Zürich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 251 87 00About
Friedhof Fluntern (Fluntern Cemetery) is a Cemetery located in Zurichberg district. James Joyce, the author of Ulysses, lived in Zurich from 1915 to 1919, at Universitä tsstrasse 38. In 1941 he returned to Zurich from Paris, only a month before his death. Near his tomb is a statue depicting the great Irish writer sitting cross-legged with a book in his hand. Elias Canetti , winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981, died in August 1994; his grave lies to the left of Joyce's. The grave of Johanna Spiri (1827-1901), who wrote the famous story Heidi, is in the Central Cemetery.
