Simon Froehling
Landis & Gyr Stiftung Residency
2026
Simon Froehling is a Swiss-Australian poet, playwright and author of the critically acclaimed novels Lange Nächte Tag and Dürrst. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and Athens, Greece. A graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute, he periodically returns there as a guest lecturer, while also teaching at the School of Applied Linguistics in Zurich and mentoring at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia, among others.
In 2017, he was Writer in Residence at New York University’s Deutsches Haus. Simon has been nominated for both the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and the Swiss Book Award and has received numerous honours, including the Elisabeth Gerter Prize for Short Prose, the Cultural Award of Network – Gay Leadership, the Audience Award of the St. Gallen Theatre Days, the Société Suisse des Auteurs’ Prize for Dramatic Writing, and the Heinz Weder Recognition Award for Poetry.
His third novel is forthcoming with Diogenes in 2027.
Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Switzerland
The Landis & Gyr foundation awards studio scholarships to Swiss artists and cultural professionals in London, Budapest, Sofia and Zug. Its London-based residency partnership with Acme was established in 1987, and provides six month long work/live opportunities for ten Swiss artists per year. Artists are selected for the programme directly by Landis & Gyr Stiftung and must demonstrate a track record of achievement in their field. Over two hundred visual artists, curators, writers, musicians and composers have benefitted from the programme. Residencies are based in Stepney, E1 and are available to Swiss residents only
For more information visit lg-stiftung.ch.
