Among my favorite authors I like to mention Georges Perec (1936-1982), Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) and Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822).
And among the swiss authors, I like Friedrich Glauser (1896-1938), Hermann Burger (1942-1989) and Peter Bichsel (*1935).