- 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
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- 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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