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Metin Arditi, born 2 February 1945 in Ankara, is a French-speaking Swiss writer of Turkish Sephardi origin.

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Raphaël Aubert is a Swiss writer and essayist.

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Lukas Bärfuss is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.

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Bessora is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages.

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Anne Cuneo was a Swiss journalist, novelist, theatre and film director and screenwriter.

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Joël Dicker is a Swiss novelist.

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Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002, but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art of Thinking Clearly, for which The Times has called him "the self-help guru the Germans love".. The book has been translated into over 40 languages and has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide.

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Anne-Lise Grobéty was a French-language Swiss journalist and an author of short stories, poetry and radio plays.

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Stefan Haenni is a Swiss painter and a crime novel writer.

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Lukas Hartmann is a Swiss novelist and children's writer, who is well known in German-speaking countries. Married to the 2015 Swiss president Simonetta Sommaruga, he was Switzerland's "first husband" in 2015 and 2020.

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Urs Jaeggi is a Swiss sociologist, painter, and author. From 1964 to 1993, he was a Professor of Sociology and Social Philosophy in Bern, Bochum, New York, and Berlin. He published numerous novels, short stories, essays as well as scientific books. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1981. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1985. Presently he lives in Berlin and Mexico City.

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Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist and journalist.

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Charles Lewinsky is a Swiss screenwriter and playwright, as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich.

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Daniel Robert Odier, also known by his pseudonym Delacorta, is a Swiss author and screenwriter. Praised by Anaïs Nin as "an outstanding writer and a dazzling poet," he is also a prolific writer on Eastern religious traditions, especially Tantra.

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Philippe Rahmy was a Swiss poet and writer.

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Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.

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Monique Schwitter is a Swiss writer and actress.

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Gerold Späth is a Swiss author, poet and writer.

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Alain Claude Sulzer is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Basel and worked as a journalist. He has published more than ten books and has won a number of literary awards in the process.

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Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". The columns have been published as nine books.

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Silja Walter was a Swiss author and Benedictine nun in the Fahr Abbey in Switzerland. Born as Cécile Walter in Rickenbach, Solothurn, in Switzerland, at the age of 30 she became a nun: her religious name was Maria Hedwig (OSB). Her brother, Otto F. Walter, was also a popular Swiss author.

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Peter Zeindler is a Swiss journalist, crime fiction writer, and playwright. He was born in Zürich.