Ruth Schweikert

1964–2023 (age 59)

Biography

Ruth Schweikert (15 July 1964 – 4 June 2023) was a Swiss writer. She is best known for her novels Augen zu (Eyes Shut) (1998), Ohio (2005) and How we get older (2015). Schweikert was awarded a number of prizes, including the Swiss Schiller Foundation Prize in 1999, the Art Prize of the City of Zurich in 2016 and the Solothurn Literature Prize, also in 2016.

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