Gabrielle Alioth (born 21 April 1955) is a Swiss author of novels, short stories, children's books and travelogues, resident in Ireland since 1984.

Gabrielle Alioth was born on 21 April 1955 in Basel and grew up in Riehen; she went on to study political science, economics, art history and philosophy in Basel and Salzburg Universities.

From 1990 Alioth began working as a freelance writer.

[3][4] In 1991 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, and the same year was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize.

[citation needed] She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California in 1997 and University College Dublin in 2005, and later on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.