List of winners and nominees for the Swiss Book Prize

The list of winners and nominees for the Swiss Book Prize includes the award-winning and nominated works since the first award of the Swiss Book Prize in 2008. The jury members of the respective years are also added.

Award winners and nominations

2008

Five works out of 84 proposed titles were nominated for the award:

• Lukas Bärfuss : One hundred days. Novel. ISBN 978-3-8353-0271-6 .
• Anja Jardine : When the moon fell from the sky. Stories. ISBN 978-3-0369-5518-6 .
• Rolf Lappert : Swim home. Novel. ISBN 978-3-446-20992-3 .
• Adolf Muschg : Children's wedding. Novel. ISBN 978-3-518-42032-4 .
• Peter Stamm : We fly. Stories. ISBN 978-3-10-075128-7 .

At the award ceremony on November 16, 2008 at Buch.08 in Basel , Rolf Lappert was able to prevail with his novel, which had already been nominated for the German Book Prize.
Adolf Muschg had his work deleted from the nomination list the previous evening on the grounds that good books are not comparable.

2009

Five works out of 61 proposed titles were nominated for the award:

• Eleonore Frey : Pattern from Hans. A report. ISBN 978-3-85420-749-8 .
• Jürg Laederach : Dispatches to Mailland. Emails edited by Michel Mettler , ISBN 978-3-518-42059-1 .
• Angelika Overath : Airport fish. Novel. ISBN 978-3-630-87307-7 .
• Ilma Rakusa : More sea. Memory passages. ISBN 978-3-85420-760-3 .
• Urs Widmer : Mr. Adamson. Novel. ISBN 978-3-257-06718-7 .

Ilma Rakusa emerged as the winner from the award ceremony on November 15, 2009.

2010

Five works out of 69 suggested titles were nominated for the award:

• Dorothee Elmiger : Invitation to the daring. Novel. ISBN 978-3-8321-9612-7 .
• Urs Faes : Pairing. Novel. ISBN 978-3-518-42171-0 .
• Pedro Lenz : I am the goalie. Novel. ISBN 978-3-905825-17-6 .
• Kurt Marti : Notes and Details 1964–2007. Articles from the journal Reformatio . ISBN 978-3-290-17541-2 .
• Melinda Nadj Abonji : Pigeons fly up . Novel. ISBN 978-3-902497-78-9 .

Melinda Nadj Abonji received the Swiss Book Prize 2010.
The award ceremony took place on November 14, 2010 as part of BuchBasel . For the first time there was the opportunity to submit public votes (audience votes ) regardless of the decision of the jury .

2011

Five works out of 60 proposed titles were nominated for the award:

• Monica Cantieni : Greenhorn. Novel. ISBN 978-3-89561-345-6 .
• Catalin Dorian Florescu : Jacob decides to love. Novel. ISBN 978-3-406-61267-1 .
• Felix Philipp Ingold : Alias. Portrait. ISBN 978-3-88221-553-3 .
• Charles Lewinsky : Gerron. Novel. ISBN 978-3-312-00478-2 .
• Peter Stamm : Seerücken. Stories. ISBN 978-3-10-075133-1 .

The 2011 award went to Catalin Dorian Florescu. The award ceremony took place on November 20, 2011 at BuchBasel.

2012

Five works out of 76 proposed titles were nominated for the award:

• Sibylle Berg : Thank you very much for life. Novel.
• Ursula Fricker : Except for yourself. Novel.
• Peter von Matt : The calf in front of the Gotthard Post. Essays.
• Thomas Meyer : Wolkenbruch's wonderful journey into the arms of a Schickse . Novel.
• Alain Claude Sulzer : Out of Joint. Novel.

The 2012 award went to Peter von Matt, which is the first time that a non-fiction work was awarded. The award ceremony took place on November 11, 2012 on the occasion of BuchBasel, for the first time in the Theater Basel .

2013

Five works out of 82 proposed titles were nominated for the award:

• Ralph Dutli : Soutine's last trip. Novel. ISBN 978-3-8353-1208-1 .
• Roman Graf : decline. Novel. ISBN 978-3-8135-0566-5 .
• Jonas Lüscher : Spring of the Barbarians. Novella. ISBN 978-3-406-64694-2 .
• Jens Steiner : Carambola. Novel. ISBN 978-3-908777-92-2 .
• Henriette Vásárhelyi : immeer . Novel. ISBN 978-3-908777-93-9 .

Jens Steiner received the Swiss Book Prize 2013 for his novel Carambole. The award ceremony took place on October 27, 2013 in the Theater Basel .

2014

Lukas Bärfuss and Koala received the award . The following were also nominated:

• Dorothee Elmiger : Sleepers.
• Heinz Helle : The calming sound of exploding kerosene.
• Guy Krneta : Unger üs.
• Gertrud Leutenegger : Panic spring.

The award ceremony at BuchBasel took place on November 9th, again at Theater Basel.

2015

The prize was awarded to Eins im Andern by Monique Schwitter . The following were also nominated:

• Martin R. Dean : Bowing to mirrors.
• Dana Grigorcea : The primary sense of innocence.
• Meral Kureyshi : Elephants in the Garden.
• Ruth Schweikert : How we get older.

The award ceremony at BuchBasel took place on November 8th at the Theater Basel.

2016

The prize went to the novel The Dead of Christian Kracht . The award ceremony took place on November 13th as part of BuchBasel in the Theater Basel. The following were also nominated:

• Sacha Batthyany : And what does that have to do with me? Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04831-5 .
• Christoph Höhtker : See everything . Ventil, Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-95575-045-9 .
• Charles Lewinsky : Andersen . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-312-00689-2 .
• Michelle Steinbeck : My father was a man on land and a whale in the water . Lenos, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-85787-469-7 .

2017

The award ceremony took place on November 12th, also this time as part of BuchBasel in the Theater Basel. The award went to the novel Kraft by Jonas Lüscher .

The nominees were:

• Martina Clavadetscher : bone songs . Book reading edition, Hitzkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-906907-01-7 .
• Urs Faes : Stop on demand. A logbook . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42583-1 .
• Lukas Holliger : The shorter life of Klaus Halm . Zytglogge, Oberhofen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7296-0949-5 .
• Jonas Lüscher : Power . CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70531-1 .
• Julia Weber : Everything is always beautiful . Limmat, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85791-823-0 .

Urs Faes did not take part in the award ceremony. He was bothered by the fact that the SRF editor Nicola Steiner quoted a sharp criticism of his book by juror Martin Ebel in her moderation of the late night show on the anniversary of the award and named Jonas Lüscher as her favorite. The previous winners showed their solidarity with Faes at the award ceremony.

2018

The award ceremony took place on November 11th at BuchBasel. The award went to the novel The gentle indifference of the world by Peter Stamm .

The following were also nominated:

• Heinz Helle : Overcoming gravity , Suhrkamp
• Julia von Lucadou : The high-rise jumper , Hanser Berlin
• Gianna Molinari : Everything is still possible here , structure
• Vincenzo Todisco : The lizard child , Rotpunktverlag

2019

The award ceremony took place on November 10th at BuchBasel. The award went to the novel GRM. Brainfuck from Sibylle Berg . The following were also nominated:

• Simone Lappert : The jump . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07074-3
• Tabea Steiner : bellows . Novel. Book reading edition, Lucerne 2019, ISBN 978-3-906-90719-2
• Alain Claude Sulzer : Unsustainable Conditions . Novel. Galiani, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-869-71194-2
• Ivna Žic : The descendant . Novel. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-957-57769-6

jury

2008-2010

• Martin Ebel ( Tages-Anzeiger )
• Sandra Leis ( The Bund )
• Manfred Papst ( NZZ am Sonntag )
• Hans Ulrich Probst ( DRS 2 )
• Martin Zingg (freelance critic)

2011–2012

• Andreas Isenschmid (NZZ am Sonntag)
• Alexandra Kedves (Tages-Anzeiger)
• Christine Lötscher (freelance critic, SIKJM )
• Hans Ulrich Probst
• Thomas Strässle (private lecturer at the University of Zurich )

2013

• Christine Lötscher (freelance critic)
• Franziska Hirsbrunner (Radio SRF)
• Alexandra Kedves (Tages-Anzeiger)
• Andreas Nentwich ( Sunday weekly magazine )
• Thomas Strässle (private lecturer at the University of Zurich)

2014

• Corina Caduff (cultural and literary scholar ZHdK)
• Andreas Nentwich ( Sunday weekly magazine )
• Susana Petrin (Culture Editor, BZ Basel )
• Heinrich Vogler (SRF literary editor)
• Ursula Zangger (Branch Manager Orell Füssli Bookstore am Bellevue)

2015

• Urs Bugmann (literary critic)
• Corina Caduff (cultural and literary scholar ZHdK)
• Susanne Jäggi (bookseller, owner of the Librium bookstore in Baden)
• Susanna Petrin (Culture Editor, BZ Basel)
• Heinrich Vogler (SRF literary editor)

2016

• Urs Bugmann (literary critic)
• Susanna Petrin (Culture Editor, BZ Basel)
• Esther Schneider (Editor-in-Chief Literature at SRF)
• Philipp Theisohn (professor for modern German literature at the German Department of the University of Zurich)
• Martina Tonidandel (bookseller and managing director of Schuler Bücher AG Chur)

2017

• Sabine Graf (Head of Central Switzerland Literature House)
• Manfred Papst (culture editor at NZZ am Sonntag)
• Esther Schneider (Editor-in-Chief Literature at SRF)
• Ursula Stamm (bookseller, books-barrel Schaffhausen)
• Philipp Theisohn (professor for modern German literature at the University of Zurich)

A few days after the award ceremony, Lukas Bärfuss, who had received the award in 2014, made serious allegations in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung against those responsible for the Swiss Book Prize, including the independence of the jury; the organizers would attend the jury meetings and have their say. The Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association (SBVV) denied any influence.

2018

• Sabine Graf (Head of Central Switzerland Literature House)
• Manfred Papst (culture editor at NZZ am Sonntag)
• Christine Richard (freelance critic)
• Ursula Stamm (bookseller, books-barrel Schaffhausen)
• Susanne Sturzenegger (SRF literary editor)

2019

• Daniel Graf (cultural editor republic )
• Manfred Papst (culture editor at NZZ am Sonntag)
• Christine Richard (freelance critic)
• Monika Steiner (bookseller Münstergass Bern)
• Susanne Sturzenegger (SRF literary editor)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.schweizerbuchpreis.ch - Announcement of the nominations
2. ↑ See: Susanne Schmetkamp: Books are not racehorses. Article from ZEIT online from November 17, 2008. And Alexandra Kedves: Adolf Muschg rebels like Marcel Reich-Ranicki. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from baz.online from November 17, 2008. 
3. ↑ Swiss Book Prize goes to Ilma Rakusa ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Tages-Anzeiger on November 15, 2009, accessed on November 3, 2010. 
4. ↑ See: Press release of September 17, 2010.
5. ↑ Media release from the LiteraturBasel association and the SBVV ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 5, 2012. 
6. ↑ Media release by the LiteraturBasel association and the SBVV ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 19, 2013. 
7. ↑ 2017 nominees
8. ↑ Jonas Lüscher receives the Swiss Book Prize - scandal before the award ceremony . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 13, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2017. 
9. ↑ Nominees 2018
10. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/schweizer-buchpreis-2019-auszeichnung-fuer-sibylle-berg-ld.1520994
11. ^ Roman Bucheli: The Swiss Book Prize is maneuvering itself into a serious crisis. www.nzz.ch, November 21, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2017 .