While working as a journalist, Mariella Mehr also became a unique prose artist, noted for the quietly overpowering style powering her fiction and somewhat unclassifiable essays, winning numerous prizes, including the Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation (1996), the ProLitteris Prize (2012), the Literary Prize of the canton of Graubünden (2016), and a Recognition Prize of the city of Zürich for her body of work (2017).