Erica Pedretti

Erica Pedretti (née Schefter; 25 February 1930 – 14 July 2022) was a Swiss author and artist. Pedretti has published texts since 1970, and since 1976 she has worked as an artist, especially as a sculptor. In 1984, Pedretti received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text The model and his painter and in 1996 the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize for her novel Engste Heimat. She was also awarded a Swiss Literature Prize in 2013.