The prize was created by Martin Bodmer and is named after the Swiss author Gottfried Keller. It is awarded every 2-3 years.

Laureates

• 1922 Jakob Bosshart
• 1925 Heinrich Federer
• 1927 Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
• 1929 Josef Nadler
• 1931 Hans Carossa
• 1933 Festgabe Universität Zürich
• 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

External links

• http://www.gottfried-keller-preis.ch