1. Johanna Spyri (1827)

Swiss Writer

Nineteenth-century children's author best remembered for Heidi, a children's classic originally published in 1881. A popular Swiss author, she published more than fifty works of fiction over the course of...

2. Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908)

Swiss Writer

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer journalist photographer and traveler.

3. Eveline Hasler (1933)

Swiss Writer

Eveline Hasler is a Swiss writer. Born in Glarus she studied Psychology and History at the University of Fribourg and worked as a teacher in St. Gallen. She has written...

4. Maja Beutler (1936)

Swiss Writer

Maja Beutler is a German language Swiss writer. She has worked as a translator and for Stadttheater Bern and Schweizer Radio DRS.

5. Fleur Jaeggy (1940)

Swiss Writer

ur Jaeggy is a Swiss writer of Italian mother tongue.

6. Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745)

Swiss Writer

Charles Victor de Bonstetten was a Swiss liberal writer.

7. Iso Camartin (1944)

Swiss Writer

Iso Camartin is a Swiss author publicist and anchorman.

8. Georges Oltramare (1896)

Swiss Writer

Georges Oltramare was a Swiss author and fascist politician who became involved in collaboration in National Socialist German Workers' Party-occupied France. Born into a leading Geneva family he obtained a...

9. Daniel Odier (1945)

Swiss Writer

Daniel Robert Odier known by his pseudonym Delacorta is a Swiss author screenwriter and poet. With regard to Odier Anaïs Nin is noted to have written He is an outstanding...

10. Adrian Naef (1948)

Swiss Writer

Adrian Albert Naef is a Swiss writer and musician. One of his most known works is Nachtgängers Logik – Journal einer Odyssee a written statement of his struggle against a...

11. Matthias Zschokke (1954)

Swiss Writer

Matthias Zschokke is a Swiss writer and filmmaker.

12. Thomas Hürlimann (1950)

Swiss Writer

Thomas Hürlimann is a Swiss playwright and novelist. His 1989 novel Das Gartenhaus was published as The Couple in the United States in 1991. In 2011 he was awarded the...

13. Markus Hediger (1959)

Swiss Writer

Markus Hediger is a Swiss writer and translator.

14. Tim Krohn (1965)

Swiss Writer

Tim Krohn is an author of Swiss literature recipient of the 1994 Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis. Born in Wiedenbrück North Rhine-Westphalia Krohn grew up in Glarus.

15. Martin R. Dean (1955)

Swiss Writer

Martin R. Dean is a Swiss writer.

16. Pierre Lepori (1968)

Swiss Writer

Pierre Lepori is a Swiss translator and writer in Italian. He studied in the universities of Siena and Bern and he was editor in the Theaterlexikon der Schweiz and a...

17. Marcus Pfister (1960)

Swiss Writer

Marcus Pfister is a Swiss author and illustrator of children's picture books. His Rainbow Fish series of children's picture books published since 1992 has been a worldwide success. The books...

18. Marcel Regamey (Unknow)

Swiss Writer

Marcel Regamey was a Swiss essayist and journalist from the Canton of Vaud.

19. Corinne Hofmann (1960)

Swiss Writer

Corinne Hofmann is a German born author living in Switzerland most famous for her multi-million selling memoir Die weisse Massai. Born on June 4 1960 to a German father and...

20. Bernard Comment (1960)

Swiss Writer

Bernard Comment is a Swiss writer translator scriptwriter and publisher of books.

21. Alain de Botton (1969)

Swiss Writer

Alain de Botton FRSL is a Swiss-British writer and television presenter resident in the United Kingdom. His books and television programmes discuss various contemporary subjects and themes emphasizing philosophy's relevance...

22. Luc Bürgin (1970)

Swiss Writer

Luc Bürgin is a Swiss writer publicist and journalist. From 1996 to 2002 Bürgin studied German literature folklore musicology media studies and sociology at the University of Basel. He has...

23. Giorgio Orelli (1921)

Swiss Writer

Giorgio Orelli was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet writer and translator. He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg where he...

24. Alexander Baumgartner (1841)

Swiss Writer

Alexander Baumgartner was a poet and writer on the history of literature. His father was Gallus Jacob Baumgartner a prominent statesman. At the abbey school of Maria Einsiedeln in Switzerland...

25. Albert Steffen (1884)

Swiss Writer

Albert Steffen was a poet painter dramatist essayist and novelist. He joined the Theosophical Society in Germany in 1910 and the Anthroposophical Society in 1912 and became its president after...

26. Werner Sutermeister (1868)

Swiss Writer

Sutermeister is a Swiss writer well known for his spoonerisms. He was the son of Otto Sutermeister.

27. Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878)

Swiss Writer

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer. He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and was educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby...

28. Adolf Frey (1855)

Swiss Writer

Adolf Frey was a Swiss writer and literary historian. The son of popular writer Jakob Frey he studied at various universities including from 1879 to 1881 literature and history at...

29. Max Rychner (1897)

Swiss Writer

Max Rychner - was a Swiss writer journalist translator and literary critic writing in German. Hannah Arendt called him ne of the most educated and subtle figures in the intellectual...

30. Carl Spitteler (1845)

Swiss Writer

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919. His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.

31. Hermann Burger (1942)

Swiss Writer

Hermann Burger was a Swiss poet novelist and essayist. In his creative works Burger often focused on society's lonely outsiders and increasingly the inevitability of death. His virtuosity in applying...

32. Albert Cohen (1895)

Swiss Writer

Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Romaniote Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations such as the International Labour Organization. He...

33. Lisa Tetzner (1894)

Swiss Writer

Lisa Tetzner was a German-born Swiss children's writer known for her work with fairy-tales. In 1924 she married Kurt Held a Jewish Communist. They fled to Switzerland to escape the...

34. Klaus Merz (1945)

Swiss Writer

Klaus Merz is a Swiss writer.

35. Edmond Pidoux (Unknow)

Swiss Writer

Edmond Pidoux was a Swiss author who wrote numerous poems novels and essays. He was particularly renowned for Biblical pieces such as L'histoire de Jonas. In 1982 he won the...

36. Doyen Bridel (1757)

Swiss Writer

Philippe-Sirice Bridel known as le Doyen Bridel was a man of letters advocate of Swiss folklore active during the development of Swiss national identity. Bridel served as a pastor at...

37. Eugène Rambert (1830)

Swiss Writer

Eugène Rambert was a Swiss author. He was born at Sâles near Swiss Clarens the eldest son of a Vaudois schoolmaster from whom he received his education. When in 1845...

38. S. Corinna Bille (1912)

Swiss Writer

S. Corinna Bille was a French speaking writer from Switzerland. Bille was born in Lausanne the daughter of Swiss painter Edmond Bille. She won the 1975 Prix Goncourt de la...

39. Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782)

Swiss Writer

Johann Robert Wyss German pronunciation: was a Swiss author writer and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du mein Vaterland in 1811 and...

40. Isabelle Kaiser (1866)

Swiss Writer

Isabelle Kaiser was a Swiss writer who produced works in the French and German languages. She received the prize of the French Academy.

41. Erika Burkart (1922)

Swiss Writer

Erika Burkart was a Swiss writer and poet. She was the recipient of many awards among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis the Gottfried-Keller-Preis the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis. She was born in...

42. Raphaël Aubert (Unknow)

Swiss Writer

Raphaël Aubert is a Swiss writer and essayist.

43. Mariella Mehr (1947)

Swiss Writer

Mariella Mehr is a Swiss writer. Mariella Mehr was born a member of the nomadic Yeniche people. She was a victim of the Hilfswerk für die Kinder der Landstrasse which...

44. Éric Werner (Unknow)

Swiss Writer

Éric Werner is a Swiss philosopher journalist and essayist.

45. Jean Starobinski (1920)

Swiss Writer

Jean Starobinski is a Swiss literary critic.

46. Denis de Rougemont (1906)

Swiss Writer

Denis de Rougemont was a Swiss writer cultural theorist and European federalist who wrote in French. He studied at the University of Neuchâtel and then moved to Paris in 1930....

47. Christoph Simon (1972)

Swiss Writer

Christoph Simon is a Swiss writer. After travelling in the Middle East Poland South America London and New York he settled in Berne. His first novel Franz or Why Antelopes...

48. Rolf Dobelli (1966)

Swiss Writer

Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002 but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art...

49. Peter Stamm (1963)

Swiss Writer

Peter Stamm is a Swiss writer.