Schiller Prize

The Schiller Prize was a Swiss literary award which was established in 1905 to promote Swiss literature and was awarded until 2012 when it was replaced as a national literary award by the Swiss Literature Awards.

The prize was awarded by the which awarded prizes each year to literary works by Swiss authors. The prize was in the amount of 10,000 francs. The Grand Prix Schiller of 30,000 francs was awarded less frequently. The Prix Schiller Découverte of 5,000 francs was awarded to new Swiss authors.^[1]

The Schiller Foundation continues to award the Prix Terra Nova to Swiss authors and translators.^[1]

Grand Prix winners[]

• 1920 – Carl Spitteler (1845–1924)
• 1922 – (1862–1924)
• 1923 – (1850–1922)
• 1928 – Francesco Chiesa (1871–1973)
• 1930 – Jakob Schaffner (1875–1944)
• 1936 – Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947)
• 1943 – Peider Lansel (1863–1943)
• 1948 – (1893–1971)
• 1955 – Gonzague de Reynold (1880–1970)
• 1960 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
• 1973 – Max Frisch (1911–1991)
• 1982 – Denis de Rougemont (1906–1985)
• 1988 – Giorgio Orelli (1921–2013)
• 1992 – Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009)
• 1997 – Maurice Chappaz (1916–2009)
• 2000 – (1936–2003)
• 2005 – Erika Burkart (1922–2010)
• 2010 – Philippe Jaccottet (1925)
• 2012 – Giovanni Orelli (1928–2016) and Peter Bichsel (1935)

Schiller Prize winners[]

• 1938 Maurice Zermatten
• 1938 Charles-François Landry, Contribution.
• 1939 Charles-François Landry for Diégo, Ed. Guilde du Livre, 1939
• 1942 and Alice Rivaz
• 1943 for Haute Cité, Ed. Kundig, 1943
• 1944 Charles-François Landry, Prix d'honneur.
• 1949 Charles-François Landry for Les Grelots de la mule, Ed. Eynard 1948 and Domitienne, Ed. Eynard, 1949.
• 1950
• 1951 Maria Lauber
• 1956 Maurice Zermatten
• 1957 Charles-François Landry for his literary work.
• 1960 Léon Savary, for all of his work.
• 1961 Jean Starobinski,
• 1963 Jacques Chessex
• 1964 Pierrette Micheloud for Valais de cœur, Ed. Monographic, 1964
• 1967 Jean Pache for Analogies, Ed. de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1966
• 1969
• 1971
• 1974 S. Corinna Bille
• 1975 for La disdetta
• 1976 for L'Effritement
• 1977 , Monique Laederach for J'habiterai mon nom^[2]
• 1978 for La Malvivante Ed. L'âge d'homme
• 1978 Jean Pache for Le Corps morcelé, L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 1977
• 1979 Anne Cuneo for all of her work
• 1980 Pierrette Micheloud for Douce-amer, Ed. de la Baconnière, 1979,
• 1982 for Nozze alte
• 1983 Nicolas Bouvier for Le poisson-scorpion, Paris, Gallimard, 1982, Monique Laederach for La femme séparée^[2]
• 1984 Au nord du Capitaine"
• 1985 Hugo Loetscher
• 1987 Peter Bichsel, Laurence Verrey
• 1988 Amélie Plume for all of her work.
• 1989 Franz Böni
• 1992 for Les Tourterelles du Caire, Ed. Bernard Campiche, 1991
• 1995 for Lucie and all of his work
• 1996 for all of her work.
• 1998 Jean-Luc Benoziglio for Le feu au lac
• 1999 for Figures de la patience, Moudon, Éditions Empreintes, 1998
• 2000 Fabio Pusterla for Pietra sangue, Milan, Marcos y Marcos, 1999. Monique Laederach for all of her work^[2]
• 2001 for Boston Blues, Paris, Phébus, 2000.
• 2002 for Rapport aux bêtes,Paris, Gallimard, 2002.
• 2003 for "le Passage du sableur", paris, L'Arpenteur, 2000.
• 2004 for all of his work.
• 2005 Agota Kristof for all of her work.
• 2006 for Huit monologues, Orbe, Bernard Campiche Éditeur, 2005.
• 2007 for Hangars, Moudon, Éditions Empreintes, 2006
• 2008 for Dans la gueule de la baleine guerre, Éditions Seuil, 2007
• 2009 Pascale Kramer for L'implacable brutalité du réveil, Éditions Mercure de France, 2009
• 2011 for Même en terre, Éditions d'autre part, 2010 / Grasset, 2012
• 2012 for Le patient du docteur Hirschfeld, Éditions Bernard Campiche, 2011

Découverte prize winners[]

• 2006 for L’homme interdit
• 2009 for Douchinka
• 2011 Douna Loup for L'embrasure, Paris, Mercure de France, 2010

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