Erika Burkart (8 February 1922,

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– 14 April 2010) was a

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writer and poet. She was the recipient of many awards, among them the

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, the

Gottfried-Keller-Preis The Gottfried-Keller-Preis, prix Gottfried-Keller, or premio Gottfried Keller is one of the oldest literary awards of Switzerland. The prize was created by Martin Bodmer and is named after the Swiss author Gottfried Keller. It is awarded every two ...

, the

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, and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis. She was born in

in 1922 and died in Muri in 2010. Erika Burkart's literary estate is archived in the

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Works

Poetry books

* ''Der dunkle Vogel'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1953 * ''Sterngefährten'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1955 * ''Bann und Flug'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1956 * ''Geist der Fluren'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1958 * ''Die gerettete Erde'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1960 * ''Mit den Augen der Kore'', Tschudy Verlag, St. Gallen 1962 * ''Ich lebe'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1964 * ''Die weichenden Ufer'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1967 * ''Fernkristall. Ausgewählte Gedichte'', Verlag an der Hartnau, Tobel (TG) 1972 * ''Die Transparenz der Scherben'', Benziger Verlag, Zurich 1973 * ''Das Licht im Kahlschlag'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1977 * ''Augenzeuge. Ausgewählte Gedichte'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1978 * ''Die Freiheit der Nacht'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1981 * ''Sternbild des Kindes'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1984 * ''Schweigeminute'', Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1988 * ''Ich suche den blauen Mohn'', Pflanzengedichte (Blumenbilder Max Löw), GS-Verlag, Basel 1989 * ''Die Zärtlichkeit der Schatten'', Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1991 * ''Stille fernster Rückruf'', Ammann Verlag, Zurich 1997 * ''Langsamer Satz'', Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2002 * ''Ortlose Nähe'', Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2005 * ''Geheimbrief'', Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2009 * ''Das späte Erkennen der Zeichen'', Weissbooks.w Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010 * ''Nachtschicht / Schattenzone'', Weissbooks.w Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, together with Ernst Halter

English translation

* Nightshift / An Area of Shadows (Spuyten Duyvil, 2013), translated by Marc Vincenz, * A Late Recognition of the Signs (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016), translated by Marc Vincenz,

Prose works

* ''Moräne'', novel,

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, Olten 1970 * ''Jemand entfernt sich'', stories, Benziger Verlag, Zürich 1972 * ''Rufweite'', Artemis Verlag, Zürich 1975 * ''Der Weg zu den Schafen'', novel, Artemis Verlag, Zürich 1979 * ''Die Spiele der Erkenntnis'', Artemis Verlag, Zürich 1985 * ''Das Schimmern der Flügel'', Ammann Verlag, Zürich 1994 * ''Grundwasserstrom . Aufzeichnungen'', Ammann Verlag, Zürich 2000 * ''Die Vikarin'', Ammann Verlag, Zürich 2006

References

Obituary

External links

Literary estate of Erika Burkart
in the archive database HelveticArchives of the

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.
Publications by and about Erika Burkart
in the catalogue Helveticat of the

. * * "Fragments, Shards, and Visions," translations by Marc Vincenz & Andrea Scrima.
Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics
', Vol VII, No 1 (2013). 1922 births 2010 deaths People from Aarau Swiss poets in German 20th-century Swiss poets Swiss women poets 20th-century women writers {{Switzerland-writer-stub