Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German.

Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating from high school.

[2] Bärfuss has won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2005 for the play Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen), the Anna Seghers-Preis in 2008,[3] the Hans Fallada Prize in 2010,[3] the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014,[3] the Swiss Book Prize (German: Schweizer Buchpreis) in 2014 for Koala,[4] the Nicolas Born Prize in 2015 and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016.

[5][4][6] The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung praised his work, among other things, as being permeated by "a high degree of stylistic certainty and formal richness of variation"[7] that explores "always anew and differently fundamental existential situations of modern life."

[9] Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.