Gertrud Leutenegger

Gertrud Leutenegger was a Swiss poet, novelist and playwright who wrote in German. Her first novel, Vorabend, appeared in 1975. Her last novel, the 2014 Panischer Frühling, earned her shortlisting in major German and Swiss awards and the Roswitha Prize. Her work, told in the first person, has been described as "a finely woven, quiet art with a tone all of its own, a searching, groping literature".