Erica Pedretti (; 25 February 1930 – 14 July 2022) was a Swiss author and artist. Pedretti has published texts since 1970, and since 1976 she has worked as an artist, especially as a sculptor. In 1984, Pedretti received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text The model and his painter and in 1996 the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize for her novel Engste Heimat. She was also awarded a Swiss Literature Prize in 2013.
Life
Erica Pedretti was born Erica Schefter in 25 February 1930 in Steinberg in northern Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Her mother tongue was German. Her father was a silk manufacturer, but lost the factory after the Second World War.