Antoinette Rychner

Antoinette Rychner is a French-speaking Swiss writer and playwright, born in 1979 in Neuchâtel. She trained at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey and at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel, and lives in the Franches-Montagnes. Her work moves between page and stage: her plays, published by Lansman and Les Solitaires intempestifs, include “De mémoire d'estomac ou L'invention du violon”, “Intimité Data Storage”, “Arlette” and “Pièces de guerre en Suisse”, and she received the SACD prize for French-language drama in 2013. Her first novel, “Le Prix” (Buchet-Chastel, 2015), won the Prix Michel-Dentan and a Swiss Literature Award in 2016; it was followed by “Après le monde” (2020), a novel of collapse, the narrative “Peu importe où nous sommes” (2020) and “Ma forêt” (2025). Several of her books have been translated into German.