Martina Clavadetscher

Martina Clavadetscher (born 1979, Zug, Switzerland). is a Swiss playwright and book author. She was the recipient of several awards amongst them also the Swiss Book Prize of 2021.

Education She studied German, linguistics and philosophy at the University of Fribourg where she was also awarded with the Literature Prize of the University in 2004.

Professional career Since 2009, she writes plays, and is the presenter of radio program for the SRF 1. For the season 2013-2014 she was the resident author of the Theater Lucerne. In 2016 she received the Prize of the Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation for her book project for her novel Knochenlieder (Song of Bones). She published the book in 2017 which was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize the same year. In 2021 she published the Erfindung der Ungehorsams (The Invention of Disobedience) which focuses on three women in different eras and continents. She often writes in the Canton of Schwyz, which she calls a region she gets inspired of.

Awards 2012 the Culture Prize of the Canton of Schwyz 2015 at the Essener Autorentagen for the play Umständliche Rettung (Cumbersome Rescue)