Zsuzsanna Gahse

Zsuzsanna Gahse (née Vajda; born 27 June 1946) is a Hungarian-born German-language writer and translator who lives in Switzerland.

Her family fled to the West after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in Vienna, where Gahse attended high school and learnt the German language.

She has published German translations of works by István Eörsi, Péter Esterházy, Péter Nádas and Zsuzsa Rakovszky, as well as producing a range of essays and fiction under her own name.

Zsuzsanna Gahse is a member of the PEN Centers in Germany and Switzerland, as well as the authors' association Die Kogge.

In 2019, she has been awarded this year's Swiss Grand Prix Literature for her life's work.