Dorothee Elmiger has won this year's Swiss Book Prize for her novel Die Holländerinnen (The Dutch Women). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss Book Prize is the third award Dorothee Elmiger has received for her novel Die Holländerinnen. She was honoured with the German Book Prize on her 40th birthday on October 13, followed by the Bavarian Book Prize at the end of October. Elmiger is the first writer to achieve this triple honour. Die Holländerinnen is a "sensual and moving text that puts us into a reading frenzy", said the jury of the Swiss Book Prize on Sunday. "In her consistently composed novel, Dorothee Elmiger revolves around violence in various forms and makes disorientation physically tangible - a feeling that epitomises our present day," it went on. The award was presented as part of the BuchBasel International Literature Festival. The other nominees were Nelio Biedermann ("Lázár"), Meral Kureyshi ("Im Meer waren wir nie"), Jonas Lüscher ...
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