Theres Roth-Hunkeler

Theres Roth-Hunkeler 2009

Theres Roth-Hunkeler (born October 11, 1953 in Hochdorf LU ) is a Swiss writer and journalist .

Life

Theres Roth-Hunkeler attended the teachers' seminar after school, then studied at the Academy for Adult Education and has worked as a journalist ever since.

She writes for the press in the fields of literature and adult education. In addition to numerous short stories in anthologies and literary magazines , she has published four novels to date .

Until April 2007, Theres Roth-Hunkeler was the first president of the Writers' Association of Switzerland ( AdS ), founded in 2003 . Today she lives and works in Baar ZG .

Works

Novels

• The walking school , Roman, Lenos Verlag , Basel 1992, ISBN 3-85787-211-X
  • as paperback: Lenos (Pocket 18), Basel 1994, ISBN 3-85787-618-2
  • New edition: Pro Libro, Lucerne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523406-8-4
• The second voice , novel, Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-85869-137-2
• Tell the night , novel, Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-85869-207-7
• What us blooms , Roman, Pro Libro, Lucerne 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523525-5-7
• Alone or with others , Roman, Edition Bücherlese, Luzern 2019, ISBN 978-3-906907-20-8

Editing

• Farewell to the split. The last few years of the Swiss Authors Group Olten and the Swiss Writers' Association (with Peter A. Schmid). Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85869-254-9

Awards

• 3sat scholarship at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition , Klagenfurt 1991
• Work grants from the Pro Helvetia Foundation in 1993 and 1998
• Work grant from the Canton of St. Gallen 1994
• Central Switzerland Audience Award for Literature , 1996
• Individual work award of the Swiss Schiller Foundation 2001

Web links

• Literature by and about Theres Roth-Hunkeler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Entry about Theres Roth-Hunkeler in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory