Gottfried Keller Prize

The Gottfried Keller Prize is a Swiss literary prize that was donated by the Martin Bodmer Foundation in 1921 on the occasion of Gottfried Keller's 102nd birthday . It is usually awarded every three years and was most recently endowed with CHF 25,000 (2016). At the same time, the foundation awards honorary gifts to distinguished writers and literary translators.

Award winners

Prize winner 1936: Hermann Hesse

1922 Jakob Bosshart 1925 Heinrich Federer 1927 Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1929 Josef Nadler 1931 Hans Carossa 1933 University of Zurich was awarded 1936 Hermann Hesse 1938 Ernst Gagliardi 1943 Robert Faesi 1947 Fritz Ernst

1949 Rudolf Kassner 1952 Gertrud von Le Fort 1954 Werner Kaegi 1956 Max Rychner 1959 Maurice Zermatten 1962 Emil Staiger 1965 Meinrad Inglin 1967 Edzard Schaper 1969 Golo Mann 1971 Marcel Raymond

1973 Ignazio Silone 1975 Hans Urs von Balthasar 1977 Elias Canetti 1979 Max Wehrli 1981 Philippe Jaccottet 1983 Hermann Lenz 1985 Herbert Lüthy 1989 Jacques Mercanton 1992 Erika Burkart 1994 Gerhard Meier

1997 Giovanni Orelli 1999 Peter Bichsel 2001 Agota Kristof 2004 Klaus Merz 2007 Fabio Pusterla 2010 Gerold Späth 2013 Authors group Bern is everywhere 2016 Pietro De Marchi 2019 Adolf Muschg and Thomas Hürlimann (On the occasion of Gottfried Keller's 200th birthday, the prize is awarded twice with the same prize money)

Web links

• www.gottfried-keller-preis.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Federation of July 16, 2013
2. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/adolf-muschg-und-thomas-huerlimann-erhalten-keller-preis-ld.1482453. In: nzz.ch. May 16, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .