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
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
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic ''Olympian Spring''". His work includes both pessimistic and hero ...
(1845–1924)
* 1922 – Jakob Bosshart (1862–1924)
* 1923 – Philippe Godet (1850–1922)
* 1928 – Francesco Chiesa (1871–1973)
* 1930 – Jakob Schaffner
Jakob Schaffner (14 November 1875 – 23 September 1944) was a leading Swiss novelist who became a supporter of Nazism. Philip Rees (1990) ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'', Simon & Schuster, p. 347,
Emergence as a wr ...
(1875–1944)
* 1936 – Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (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 nation ...
(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- ...
(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 (social science), identity, individuality, Moral responsibility, responsibility, morality, and political commi ...
(1911–1991)
* 1982 – Denis de Rougemont
Denys Louis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906 – December 6, 1985), known as Denis de Rougemont (), was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitaria ...
(1906–1985)
* 1988 – Giorgio Orelli (1921–2013)
* 1992 – Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009)
* 1997 – Maurice Chappaz (1916–2009)
* 2000 – Grytzko Mascioni (1936–2003)
* 2005 – Erika Burkart
Erika Burkart (8 February 1922 – 14 April 2010) was a Swiss writer, teacher and poet. She wrote poems and epic poems, and received international recognition. Burkart was the recipient of many awards, among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis ...
(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
Peter Bichsel (; 24 March 193515 March 2025) was a Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Group 47. His breakthrough was the collection of short stories ''And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Li ...
(1935)
Schiller Prize winners
* 1938 Maurice Zermatten
Maurice Zermatten (22 October 1910, in Saint-Martin, Valais – 11 February 2001, in Sion) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
He was born in Saint-Martin, Valais, a small village situated in the Val d'Hérens, in the canton of Valais. He was ...
* 193
Charles-François Landry
Contribution.
* 193
Charles-François Landry
for ''Diégo'', Ed. Guilde du Livre, 1939
* 1942 Pericle Patocchi and Alice Rivaz
* 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 19 ...
* 1951 Maria Lauber
* 1956 Maurice Zermatten
Maurice Zermatten (22 October 1910, in Saint-Martin, Valais – 11 February 2001, in Sion) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
He was born in Saint-Martin, Valais, a small village situated in the Val d'Hérens, in the canton of Valais. He was ...
* 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 wa ...
, 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 P ...
, Jean-Pierre Monnier
* 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 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''Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel (; 24 March 193515 March 2025) was a Swiss writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Group 47. His breakthrough was the collection of short stories ''And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Li ...
, Laurence Verrey
* 1988 Amélie Plume
Amélie Plume (born 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. She won the Schiller Prize for her whole body of work in 1988. She also won the Pittard de l'Andelyn Prize om 1993 for ''Promenade avec Emile L''. Her work has been de ...
for all of her work.
* 1989 Franz Böni Franz may refer to:
People
* Franz (given name)
* Franz (surname)
Places
* Franz (crater), a lunar crater
* Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada
* Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...
* 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 work
Découverte prize winners
* 2006 Catherine Lovey for ''L’homme interdit''
* 2009 Dominique de Rivaz for ''Douchinka''
* 2011 Douna Loup for ''L'embrasure'', Paris, Mercure de France, 2010
References
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