WAnne Cuneo was a Swiss journalist, novelist, theatre and film director and screenwriter.
WLaurence Deonna is a Swiss journalist, writer and photographer who in the late 1960s became a celebrated war reporter in the Middle-East. In 1987, on the basis of her articles, books and photographs promoting international understanding and improvements to the status of women, she was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Deonna, who continues to write, has published 12 widely translated books.
WMarianne Ehrmann was one of the first women novelists, publicists and journalists in the German-speaking countries.
WAnne-Lise Grobéty was a French-language Swiss journalist and an author of short stories, poetry and radio plays.
WVerena Hoehne was a Swiss journalist and author.
WChristine Maier is a Swiss television journalist and presenter.
WMin Li Marti is a Swiss sociologist, historian, publisher and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP).
WIlma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
WNoëlle Roger, the pen name of Hélène Pittard, was a Swiss author writing in French.
WJulieta Schildknecht is a Swiss-Brazilian photographer and journalist.
WAnnemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist and photographer. Her bisexual mother brought her up in a masculine style, and her androgynous image suited the bohemian Berlin society of the time, in which she indulged enthusiastically. Her Anti-Fascist campaigning forced her into exile, where she became close to the family of novelist Thomas Mann. She would live much of her life abroad as a photo-journalist, embarking on many lesbian relationships, and experiencing a growing morphine addiction. In America, the young Carson McCullers was infatuated with Annemarie, to whom she dedicated Reflections in a Golden Eye. Annemarie reported on the early events of World War II, but died of a head injury, following a fall.