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.^[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 – Jakob Bosshart (1862–1924)
1923 – Philippe Godet (1850–1922)
1928 – Francesco Chiesa (1871–1973)
1930 – Jakob Schaffner (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 (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 – Grytzko Mascioni (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 Pericle Patocchi and Alice Rivaz
1943 Jean-Georges Lossier 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 Georges Méautis
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, 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^[2]
1978 Mireille Kuttel 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, Jean-Pierre Monnier
1981 Marie-José Piguet for Jean Fantoche, portrait bouffon d'une auguste famille
1982 Anna Felder for Nozze alte
1983 Nicolas Bouvier for Le poisson-scorpion, Paris, Gallimard, 1982, Monique Laederach for La femme séparée^[2]
1984 Catherine Safonoff Au nord du Capitaine
1985 Hugo Loetscher
1987 Peter Bichsel, Laurence Verrey
1988 Amélie Plume 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 work^[2]
2001 Jean-François Duval for Boston Blues, Paris, Phébus, 2000.
2002 Noëlle Revaz for Rapport aux bêtes,Paris, Gallimard, 2002.
2003 Benoît Damon for "le Passage du sableur", paris, L'Arpenteur, 2000.
2004 François Debluë for all of his work.
2005 Ágota Kristóf 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 for Douchinka
2011 Douna Loup for L'embrasure, Paris, Mercure de France, 2010

References

^ ^a ^b "Histoire" (in French). Schiller Foundation.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Preise der Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung 1908 – 2012" (PDF). Fondation Schiller Suisse.

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