The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a

literary award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c ...

for a literary achievement by a German language writer. Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 15,000

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s. It is named after the city of

Solothurn Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains. The town is ...

in Switzerland.

Winners

*1994: Monika Maron *1995: Wilhelm Genazino *1996: Klaus Merz *1997:

Christoph Ransmayr Christoph Ransmayr (; born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer. Life Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as ...

*1998:

Thomas Hürlimann Thomas Hürlimann (born 21 December 1950) is a Swiss playwright and novelist. Biography Hürlimann was born in Zug, Switzerland. He is a son of the former government and federal councilor (Minister) Hans Hürlimann. He studied philosophy in Züri ...

*1999: Birgit Vanderbeke *2000: Christoph Hein *2001: Anna Mitgutsch *2002: Erich Hackl *2003: Hanna Johansen *2004: Barbara Honigmann *2005:

Kathrin Röggla Kathrin Röggla (born 1971) is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg and lives in Berlin since 1992 but moved to Cologne in 2020. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, as well as dramas and radio ...

*2006:

Matthias Zschokke Matthias Zschokke (29 October 1954 Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer and filmmaker. Life He attended drama school at the Schauspielschule Bochum. Since 1980, he has been living as a writer and filmmaker in Berlin. He has written nine volume ...

*2007: *2008:

Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck (; born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director. She won the 2015 ''Independent'' Foreign Fiction Prize for ''The End of Days'' and the 2024 International Booker Prize for ''Kairos''. Life Born in East Berlin, Erp ...

*2009:

Juli Zeh Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974) is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as '' The Method'' (2009), '' Unterleuten'' (2016) and '' About People'' (2021). Early life and education Juli Zeh is the da ...

*2010:

Ulrike Draesner Ulrike Draesner (born 1962 in Munich) is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize. Life and work The daughter of an architect, Draesner grew up in Munich, Germany. She received a Bavarian State scholarship for the best perfor ...

*2011:

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 ...

*2012: Annette Pehnt *2013: Franz Hohler *2014: Lukas Bärfuss *2015: Thomas Hettche *2016:

Ruth Schweikert Ruth Schweikert (15 July 1964 – 4 June 2023) was a Swiss writer. She is best known for her novels ''Augen zu'' (Eyes Shut) (1998), ''Ohio'' (2005) and ''How we get older'' (2015). Schweikert was awarded a number of prizes, including the Swiss ...

*2017:

Terézia Mora Terézia Mora (; born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator. Early life and education Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany a ...

*2018:

Peter Stamm Peter Stamm (born 18 January 1963 in Münsterlingen) is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was nominated for the Inte ...

*2019: Karen Duve *2020: Monika Helfer *2021: Iris Wolff * 2022: ''not awarded'' * 2023: Gertrud Leutenegger * 2024: Anne Weber * 2025:

Alain Claude Sulzer Alain Claude Sulzer (born 17 February 1953) is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel. Sulzer became a librarian, but also translated from French, for example parts of Julien Green's diaries. As a journalist he wrote for ...

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{{official, http://www.solothurner-literaturpreis.ch/ Swiss literary awards Canton of Solothurn Awards established in 1994 1994 establishments in Switzerland

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