Born 1976 · Germany, Switzerland
Schweizer Buchpreis 2025 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Enchanted Predestination”
Jonas Lüscher · 49 when first published
Novel · 347 pages · Historical, Speculative, War
AI-generated summary:An Algerian soldier caught in the first German poison gas attack stands up and walks away. In a future Cairo, a stand-up comedian watches an android laugh at her jokes. A Bohemian weaver attacks the loom that replaced him.
Schweizer Buchpreis 2017 · Winner
Kraft
Jonas Lüscher · 41 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:Richard Kraft, a rhetoric professor in Tübingen, unhappily married and short of money, is invited to Silicon Valley to compete for a million dollars: in an 18-minute talk he must explain why all that is, is good, and can still be improved.
Schweizer Buchpreis 2013 · Shortlist
Frühling der Barbaren
Jonas Lüscher · 37 when first published
Novella · 132 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:On a business trip, the Swiss factory heir Preising stays at an upmarket oasis resort in Tunisia, where young British financiers are celebrating a lavish wedding. Then the pound collapses and Britain goes bankrupt.