Award for German-language Swiss literature
Published: Sunday, Nov 19th 2023, 12:11
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The Swiss Book Prize was established in 2008 and is awarded exclusively to German-language Swiss literature. The first prize is endowed with 30,000 Swiss francs. The prizewinners:
2023: Christian Haller, "Clearing fog"
2022: Kim from the Horizon, "Blutbuch".
2021: Martina Clavadetscher, "The invention of disobedience"
2020: Anna Stern, "all this here, now."
2019: Sibylle Berg, "GRM. Brainfuck"
2018: Peter Stamm, "The gentle indifference of the world"
2017: Jonas Lüscher, "Power"
2016: Christian Kracht, "The Dead"
2015: Monique Schwitter, "One in the other"
2014: Lukas Bärfuss, "Koala"
2013: Jens Steiner, "Carambole"
2012: Peter von Matt, "The calf from the Gotthard post office"
2011: Catalin Dorian Florescu, "Jacob decides to love"
2010: Melinda Nadj Abonji, "Pigeons fly up"
2009: Ilma Rakusa, "More Sea. Passages of memory"
2008: Rolf Lappert, "Swimming home"
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