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 Swiss Literature Awards (which were known as the Federal Literature Awards) is a Switzerland, Swiss Literary awards, literary award presented by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC).
History
The organization of the Awards is given to FOC in th ...
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The prize was awarded by the
Schiller Foundation 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.
The Schiller Foundation continues to award the Prix Terra Nova to Swiss authors and translators.
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Grand Prix winners
* 1920 – Carl Spitteler (1845–1924)
* 1922 – Jakob Bosshart (1862–1924)
* 1923 – Philippe Godet (1850–1922)
* 1928 – Francesco Chiesa
Francesco Chiesa (5 July 1871 in Sagno – 10 June 1973 in Lugano) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet and short story writer. He was awarded the Grand Prix Schiller Prize
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(1871–1973)
* 1930 – Jakob Schaffner (1875–1944)
* 1936 – Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September 1878 – 23 May 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
Biography
He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and was educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby Aubonne, and ...
(1878–1947)
* 1938 - Vinicio Salati (1908-1994)
* 1943 – Peider Lansel (1863–1943)
* 1948 – Meinrad Inglin (1893–1971)
* 1955 – Gonzague de Reynold
Gonzague de Reynold (15 June 1880 – 9 April 1970) was a Swiss writer, historian, and right-wing political activist.
Over the course of his six-decade career, he wrote more than thirty books outlining his traditionalist Catholic and Swiss natio ...
(1880–1970)
* 1960 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (; 5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-g ...
(1921–1990)
* 1973 – Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch (; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant featur ...
(1911–1991)
* 1982 – Denis de Rougemont
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(1906–1985)
* 1988 – Giorgio Orelli
Giorgio Orelli (May 25, 1921 – November 10, 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.
He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman p ...
(1921–2013)
* 1992 – Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009)
* 1997 – Maurice Chappaz
Maurice Chappaz (21 December 1916, in Lausanne – 15 January 2009, in Martigny) was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards, including his country's most notable award, the Gran ...
(1916–2009)
* 2000 – Grytzko Mascioni (1936–2003)
* 2005 – Erika Burkart (1922–2010)
* 2010 – Philippe Jaccottet
Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.
Life and work
After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...
(1925)
* 2012 – Giovanni Orelli (1928–2016) and Peter Bichsel
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Bichsel was born 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of manual labourers. Shortly after ...
(1935)
Schiller Prize winners
* 1938 Maurice Zermatten
* 193
Charles-François Landry
Contribution.
* 193
Charles-François Landry
for ''Diégo'', Ed. Guilde du Livre, 1939
* 1942 Pericle Patocchi
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* Pericle Fazzini (1913–1987), Italian painter and sculptor
* Pericle Felici (1911–1982), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church
* Pericle Martinescu ...
and Alice Rivaz
Alice Rivaz (14 August 1901 – 27 February 1998) was a Swiss writer and feminist.
Life
She was born Alice Golay in the small Swiss municipality of Rovray, in the Canton of Vaud, the only child of Paul Golay and Ida Ettler, both strong Calvinis ...
* 1943 Jean-Georges Lossier for ''Haute Cité'', Ed. Kundig, 1943
* 194
Charles-François Landry
Prix d'honneur.
* 194
Charles-François Landry
for ''Les Grelots de la mule'', Ed. Eynard 1948 and ''Domitienne'', Ed. Eynard, 1949.
* 1950 Georges Méautis Georges may refer to:
Places
*Georges River, New South Wales, Australia
*Georges Quay (Dublin)
*Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Other uses
*Georges (name)
* ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas
* "Georges" (song), a 1977 ...
* 1951 Maria Lauber
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Life and work
Born in Frutigen, in ...
* 1956 Maurice Zermatten
* 195
Charles-François Landry
for his literary work.
* 1960 Léon Savary Léon Savary (Fleurier, 1895 - Boudry, 1968) was a Swiss French-speaking writer and journalist from Payerne, Vaud.
Biography
Savary was the son of a German russified aristocratic mother from the Baltic region (Von Paucker) and a father who was ...
, for all of his work.
* 1961 Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski (17 November 1920 – 4 March 2019) was a Swiss literary critic.
Biography
Starobinski was born in Geneva in 1920, the son of
Jewish physicians Aron Starobinski of Warsaw and Sulka Frydman of Lublin.
Both his parents left ...
, Jean-Pierre Monnier
* 1963 Jacques Chessex
Jacques Chessex (Payerne, 1 March 1934 – Yverdon-les-Bains, 9 October 2009) was a Swiss author and painter.
Biography
Chessex was born in 1934 in Payerne. From 1951 to 1953, he studied at Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg, before undertaking ...
* 1964 Pierrette Micheloud for ''Valais de cœur'', Ed. Monographic, 1964
* 1967 Jean Pache for ''Analogies'', Ed. de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1966
* 1969 Alexandre Voisard
* 1971 Georges Haldas
* 1974 S. Corinna Bille
* 1975 Anna Felder for ''La disdetta''
* 1976 Jean-Claude Fontanet for ''L'Effritement''
* 1977 Georges Haldas, Monique Laederach for ''J'habiterai mon nom''Nicolas Bouvier
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Life
Bouvier was born at Gra ...
for ''Le poisson-scorpion'', Paris, Gallimard, 1982, Monique Laederach for ''La femme séparée''Peter Bichsel
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, Laurence Verrey
* 1988 Amélie Plume
Amélie Plume (born 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer.
Biography
She carried out her study of letters and ethnology at the Université de Neuchâtel.
She voyaged to Africa, Israel and New York City where she taught Fr ...
for all of her work.
* 1989 Franz Böni
* 1992 Gisèle Ansorge for ''Les Tourterelles du Caire'', Ed. Bernard Campiche, 1991
* 1995 Jean-Bernard Vuillème for ''Lucie'' and all of his work
* 1996 Yvette Z'Graggen for all of her work.
* 1998 Jean-Luc Benoziglio for ''Le feu au lac''
* 1999 François Debluë 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 workÁgota Kristóf
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for all of her work.
* 2006 Jacques Probst for ''Huit monologues'', Orbe, Bernard Campiche Éditeur, 2005.
* 2007 José-Flore Tappy for ''Hangars'', Moudon, Éditions Empreintes, 2006
* 2008 Jean-François Haas 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 Thomas Sandoz for ''Même en terre'', Éditions d'autre part, 2010 / Grasset, 2012
* 2012 Nicolas Verdan for ''Le patient du docteur Hirschfeld'', Éditions Bernard Campiche, 2011
Découverte prize winners
* 2006 Catherine Lovey for ''L’homme interdit''
* 2009 Dominique de Rivaz
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for ''Douchinka''
* 2011 Douna Loup for ''L'embrasure'', Paris, Mercure de France, 2010
References
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