His works were written in Romansch and German, and comprised epic novels, short stories, and drama.
His father, Jon Peer, was a one-time lumberjack, while his mother Silva Wieser belonged to a farming family.
Peer met his wife, Monica, at the training college — he was a substitute teacher and she, a student.
[4] One of his earliest works was the short story Chasa Veglia, published in his brother's collection Chalender Ladin.
An exception is his memoir Das Raunen des Flusses in which the reader is introduced to the characters and places of Peer's formative years, and the events of the 1930s and 1940s in the Lower Engardine are reported.
[5] Peer's philological career culminated in the compilation of the Rumantsch Dicziunari, ladin-tudais-ch, a multilingual dictionary.
[5] With the decline in the number of speakers of the Romansch dialects in Switzerland, the readership of works in the language has also reduced.