Antoinette Rychner

• Antoinette Rychner was born in 1979 in the canton of Neuchâtel. Her first novel, Le Prix, published in January 2015 by Qui Vive, won both the Michel-Dentan prize and the Swiss Literature Grand Prize, the two most important literary awards in French-speaking Switzerland. But she is best-known for her work in the theatre, for which she has been writing and directing for decades.