Switzerland is an El Dorado of multilingualism. This is also becoming increasingly evident in literature. Many authors no longer write in just one language. They fall back on a second one, which is just as closely linked to their lives, and publish bilingual poetry, novels and stories. Or they write in a national language and translate texts from their mother tongue. Or they write in their mother tongue and translate Swiss texts. These authors are constantly switching back and forth between different language worlds. Is this a gain for them? A tough challenge? The fourteen portraits ask about the motives for working literarily in two languages and what this writing in two languages means for writing and for the language(s) themselves.