Margrit Sprecher
Margrit Sprecher, Journalistin, 1935
The grande dame of Swiss Journalism lives in Zurich and has already received numerous plaudits for her work: the 1985 International Journalism Prize Klagenfurt (Internationaler Publizistik Preis Klagenfurt), the 1992 Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Prize Hamburg, the 2003 Zurich Journalism Prize (Zürcher Journalisten Preis), and the 2008 Grisons Award for Literature. She is the first female journalist to receive this award of CHF 20’000 from the Reinhardt von Graffenried Foundation.