List of Swiss People - Writers

Writers

See also: List of Swiss poets
  • Théophile Agustoni (born 1930)
  • Peter Bichsel (born 1935)
  • S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979), author, poet
  • Ida Bindschedler (1854–1919), child book author
  • Silvio Blatter (born 1946)
  • Hans Boesch (1926–2003)
  • Hermann Burger (1942–1989), author, poet, literary scholar, editor
  • Erika Burkart (1922–2010), poet
  • Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745–1832)
  • Nicolas Bouvier (1929–1998)
  • Elias Canetti (1905–1994), 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, Swiss resident
  • Brett Michael Campbell (born 1967), author
  • Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Louis Sauser) (1887–1961), author
  • Victor Cherbuliez (1829–1899), member of the Académie française
  • Jacques Chessex (1934–2009)
  • Anne Cuneo (born 1936)
  • Erich von Däniken (born 1935), Ancient Astronauts writer
  • Martin R. Dean (born 1955), writer
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), author and dramatist
  • Werner J. Egli (born 1943)
  • Felix Epper (born 1967)
  • Heinrich Federer (1866–1928)
  • Jürg Federspiel (1931–2007)
  • Martin Frank (born 1950)
  • Max Frisch (1911–1991), author and architect
  • Salomon Gessner (1730–1788)
  • Friedrich Glauser (1896–1938)
  • Jeremias Gotthelf (Albert Bitzius) (1797–1854), author and pastor
  • Roger Graf (born 1958)
  • Jyoti Guptara and Suresh Guptara (born 1988), twin authors (Calaspia and sequels), Swiss residents
  • Eveline Hasler (born 1933)
  • Markus Hediger (born 1959)
  • Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature, Swiss resident
  • Franz Hohler (born 1943), author and comedian
  • Al Imfeld (born 1935), author and African specialist
  • Meinrad Inglin (1893–1971)
  • Philippe Jaccottet (born 1925)
  • Zoë Jenny (born 1974)
  • Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), author
  • Christian Kracht (born 1966), author
  • Hugo Loetscher (born 1929), author
  • Ella Maillart (1903–1997)
  • Niklaus Meienberg (1940–1993)
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898)
  • Adolf Muschg (born 1934)
  • Suzanne Necker, née Suzanne Curchod (1739–1794)
  • Juste Olivier (1807–1876)
  • Giorgio Orelli (born 1921), poet, translator
  • Giovanni Orelli (born 1928), poet, teacher
  • Daniele Pantano (born 1976), poet, translator, editor
  • Erica Pedretti (born 1930), author and artist
  • Eugène Rambert (1830–1886)
  • Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947), writer
  • Grisélidis Réal (1929–2005)
  • Urs Richle (born 1965)
  • Alice Rivaz (1901–1998), writer
  • Gustave Roud (1897–1976), poet
  • Léon Savary (1895–1968), writer and journalist
  • Jakob Schaffner (1875–1944)
  • Margrit Schriber (born 1939)
  • Josias Simmler (1530–1576), theologian, historian
  • Carl Spitteler (1845–1924), 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), author of Heidi
  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Madame de Staël) (1766–1817)
  • Peter Stamm (born 1963)
  • Albert Steffen (1884–1963), writer, anthroposophist
  • Martin Suter (born 1948), columnist and novelist
  • Adrien Turel (1890–1957)
  • Otto F. Walter (1928–1994), novelist
  • Robert Walser (1878–1956)
  • Silja Walter (born 1919) sister of Otto F. Walter, Benedictinian nun and writer
  • Markus Werner (born 1944)
  • Urs Widmer (born 1938)
  • Johann David Wyss (1743–1818), author of The Swiss Family Robinson
  • Yvette Z'Graggen (born 1920)
  • Albin Zollinger (1885–1941)
  • Emil Zopfi (born 1943)
  • Fritz Zorn (Fritz Angst) (1944–1976), author of Mars
  • Roland Zoss (born 1951)
  • Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771–1848)
  • Manfred Züfle (1936–2007), writer

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    “All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

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