[2] Throughout that period, she was a reciter, a dubbing actor and directed and produced several literary features about Peter Handke, Ernst Jandl, Raymond Queneau, and Sarah Kane.

Her first collection of short stories, Wenn's schneit beim Krokodil, was published in 2005 and was awarded the Robert-Walser Preis (2006)[2] and a prize by the Deutsche Schillerstiftung.

In 2010, Monique Schwitter decided to end her acting career, in order to pursue writing full-time.

[3] The novel is about a forty-year-old woman who during a random google search discovers that her first love had committed suicide many years ago.

[6] Her work has been translated into several languages, including French, Danish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Polish, and English.