{{Short description|Literary archive in Bern, Switzerland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox archive/wikidata}}
The '''Swiss Literary Archives''' (SLA – ''Schweizerische Literaturarchiv'') in Bern collects literary estates in all four national languages of Switzerland (German, French, Italian and Romansh language). It is part of the Swiss National Library operated by the Federal Office of Culture within the Federal Department of Home Affairs.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lo |first1=Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USY-DwAAQBAJ |title=World ́s Leading National, Public, Monastery and Royal Library Directors: Leadership, Management, Future of Libraries |last2=Cho |first2=Allan |last3=Chiu |first3=Dickson K. W. |date=2017-09-25 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-053334-7 |pages=54 |language=en}}</ref>
The archives were founded in 1991 and are located in the building of the Swiss National Library.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exil-Netzwerk Einzelsicht – Swiss Literary Archives (SLA) |url=https://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Networkpartner/schweizerisches-literaturarchiv-en.html |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=kuenste-im-exil.de |language=en}}</ref> The foundation can be tracked back to the last will of the writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, who died in 1990. Dürrenmatt gave his literary remains to the state, but under the condition that the state establishes a national archive for literature.
thumb|Typewriters of authors in the Swiss Literary Archives The Swiss Literary Archives today contain around 100 important literary estates and premortal-estates and about 120 partial estates and collections, including material from:
{{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| * Peter Bichsel * Cla Biert * Hermann Burger * Erika Burkart * Blaise Cendrars * Alice Ceresa * Jacques Chessex * Gion Deplazes * Albert Einstein * Heinrich Federer * Anna Felder * Jean Gebser * Friedrich Glauser * Eveline Hasler * Hermann Hesse * Patricia Highsmith<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patricia Highsmith's enigmatic love life and persona take center stage in new film |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/patricia-highsmiths-enigmatic-love-life-persona-take-center-stage-new-rcna46154 |access-date=2023-02-02 |publisher=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> * Ludwig Hohl * Urs Jaeggi * Walther Kauer * Peider Lansel * Hugo Loetscher * Lorenz Lotmar * Golo Mann * Grytzko Mascioni * Mani Matter * Mariella Mehr * Niklaus Meienberg * Adolf Muschg * Alberto Nessi * Paul Nizon * Giovanni Orelli * Erica Pedretti * Andri Peer * Josef Reinhart * Rainer Maria Rilke * Isolde Schaad * Hendri Spescha * Annemarie Schwarzenbach * Carl Spitteler * Verena Stefan * Beat Sterchi * Walter Vogt * Otto F. Walter * Silja Walter * Jean Starobinski * Étienne Barilier * Georges Poulet * Georges Borgeaud * Roger Dragonetti * Agota Kristof * Maurice Chappaz * S. Corinna Bille * Gonzague de Reynold }}
== See also== * Swiss literature
== Notes and references == {{Reflist}}
==External links == * [https://www.nb.admin.ch/snl/en/home/about-us/sla.html Official website] * [https://www.helveticarchives.ch/detail.aspx?ID=168176 Swiss Literary Archives in the archive database HelveticArchives] of the Swiss National Library * [https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasefondsnamedetail?NAME_ID=77607.011&LNG_ID=ENU Swiss Literary Archives] in the Swiss National Sound Archives
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