Gottfried-Keller-Preis
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The Gottfried-Keller-Preis or Prix Gottfried Keller is one of the oldest literary awards of Switzerland
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The prize was created by Martin Bodmer
and is named after the Swiss author Gottfried Keller
. It is awarded every 2-3 years.
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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The prize was created by Martin Bodmer
Martin Bodmer
Martin Bodmer was a Swiss bibliophile, scholar and collector.- Biography :Martin Bodmer was the son of wealthy parents born in Zurich, Switzerland, where he lived until 1948. His father died in 1916 leaving a very large fortune. In 1918, Bodmer began studying German language, then gave up and took...
and is named after the Swiss author Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller , a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry .- Life and work :...
. It is awarded every 2-3 years.
Laureates
- 1922 Jakob Bosshart
- 1925 Heinrich Federer
- 1927 Charles Ferdinand RamuzCharles Ferdinand RamuzCharles-Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby Aubonne, and then in Weimar, Germany. In 1903, he left for Paris and remained there until World War I, with frequent...
- 1929 Josef Nadler
- 1931 Hans CarossaHans CarossaHans Carossa was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his innere Emigration during the Nazi era....
- 1933 Festgabe Universität Zürich
- 1936 Hermann HesseHermann HesseHermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
- 1938 Ernst Gagliardi
- 1943 Robert Faesi
- 1947 Fritz Ernst
- 1949 Rudolf KassnerRudolf KassnerRudolf Kassner was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. Although stricken as an infant with poliomyelitis, Kassner traveled widely to northern Africa, the Sahara, India, Russia, Spain, and throughout Europe. His translations of William Blake introduced this English...
- 1952 Gertrud von Le FortGertrud von Le FortGertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays. She came from a Protestant background, but converted to Catholicism in 1926. Most of Gertrud's writings come after this conversion...
- 1954 Werner KaegiWerner KaegiWerner Kaegi was a Swiss historian. He is best known for a single work, a biography of Jacob Burkhardt. This appeared in seven volumes, from 1947 to 1982.He was recipient of the Gottfried-Keller-Preis and the Erasmus Prize....
- 1956 Max RychnerMax RychnerMax Rychner - was a Swiss writer, journalist, translator, and literary critic, writing in German...
- 1959 Maurice ZermattenMaurice ZermattenMaurice Zermatten 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 first educated at the Ecole normale and then at the University of Fribourg...
- 1962 Emil Staiger
- 1965 Meinrad Inglin
- 1967 Edzard Schaper
- 1969 Golo MannGolo MannGolo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.-Life:...
- 1971 Marcel RaymondMarcel RaymondMarcel Raymond was a Swiss literary critic who specialized in French literature. He is generally grouped with the so-called "Geneva School".-Biography:...
- 1973 Ignazio SiloneIgnazio SiloneIgnazio Silone was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, an Italian author and politician.-Early life and career:...
- 1975 Hans Urs von BalthasarHans Urs von BalthasarHans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church...
- 1977 Elias CanettiElias CanettiElias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".-Life:...
- 1979 Max WehrliMax WehrliMax Wehrli was a Swiss literary scholar and Germanist. Wehrli studied Germanic and Greek at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin. Among his teachers were Ernst Howald and Nicolai Hartmann.-Works:...
- 1981 Philippe JaccottetPhilippe JaccottetPhilippe Jaccottet is a poet and translator who publishes in French.After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived several years in Paris. In 1953, came to live in the town of Grignan in Provence...
- 1983 Hermann LenzHermann LenzHermann Karl Lenz[p] was a German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels. A major part of his work includes 10 volumes in a semi-autobiographical novel cycle about the alter-ego figure "Eugen Rapp"[p]. In the 1970s he published the 7-volume Schwäbische Chronik .Lenz had been a German POW in...
- 1985 Herbert Lüthy
- 1989 Jacques Mercanton
- 1992 Erika BurkartErika BurkartErika Burkart was a Swiss writer and poet. She was the recipient of many awards, among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis, the Gottfried-Keller-Preis, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis.She was born in Aarau in 1922 and died in Muri in 2010.-Poetry books:* Der...
- 1994 Gerhard Meier
- 1997 Giovanni Orelli
- 1999 Peter BichselPeter BichselPeter Bichsel is a popular Swiss-German writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten....
- 2001 Agota KristofAgota KristofÁgota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook . She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.- Biography :Kristof...
- 2004 Klaus MerzKlaus Merz- Life :As a teacher , Merz has worked in adult education. He has won several prices, e.g. the famous „Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis“ in 1997, the „Gottfried Keller-Preis“ in 2004 and the „Werkpreis der schweizerischen Schillerstiftung“ in 2005....
- 2007 Fabio Pusterla
- 2010 Gerold Späth