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Swiss Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Switzerland or whose writings are closely associated with that country. B *Béatrix Beck (1914–2008), Swiss-born Belgian writing in French, novelist * Maja Beutler (1936–2021), German-language novelist, short story writer, playwright *S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979), short story writer, poet, novelist, children's writer *Teresina Bontempi (1883–1968), Italian-language Swiss journalist, editor * Irena Brežná (born 1950), Slovak-Swiss writer, journalist, activist *Erika Burkart (1922–2010), German language poet, short story writer, novelist *Martha Burkhardt (1874–1958), Swiss-born travel writer C * Dominique Caillat (born 1956), playwright, non-fiction writer, works in German, French and English *Corinne Chaponnière (born 1954), Swiss-Canadian writer *Anne Cuneo (1936–2015), French-language novelist, journalist, screenwriter *Suzanne Curchod (1737–1794), French-language non-fiction writer, salonist D * Laurence Deon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
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Marthe Gosteli
Marthe Gosteli (22 December 1917 – 7 April 2017) was a Swiss suffrage activist and archivist. For thirty years, she led the fight for women's right to vote in Switzerland and then focused her attention on preserving the history of Swiss women. Creating an archive of women's biographies and history, Gosteli's work was recognized by many honours and awards, including the 2011 Swiss Human Rights Award. Biography Marthe Gosteli was born on 22 December 1917 in Worblaufen, (now known as Ittigen) Switzerland to Johanna Ida (née Salzmann) and Ernst Gosteli. She completed commercial training and took language courses in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and in London. Gosteli's father died, leaving his wife in charge of the estate. With the help of her daughters, the women managed to hold on to and maintain the family farm, but Gosteli recognized how inequality affected them and joined the feminist movement in 1940. During World War II Gosteli worked for the Wartime Broadcastin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Laederach
Monique Laederach (16 May 1938 – 17 March 2004) was a Swiss writer and translator. The daughter of Jean-Rodolphe Laederach and Hilde Maeder, she was born in Les Brenets and studied music in Vienna, going on to pursue the study of literature at the University of Lausanne and the University of Neuchâtel. During this time, she also taught German. She published poems, novels, radio plays, plays for the theatre and literary criticism. Laederach also translated works by German-language writers such as Kafka, Rilke, Erika Burkart and Adolf Muschg into French. From 1961 to 1973, she was married to the Swiss writer . Laederach participated in literary conferences in Great Britain, Scandinavia, the United States, Canada and Mexico. She was a member of the Gruppe Olten The Gruppe Olten (Olten Group) was a club of left-wing Swiss writers who convened at Olten's "Bahnhofbuffet" (Swiss expression for a railway station restaurant) located in the canton of Solothurn in the Swiss plat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Krüsi
Christina Krüsi (born 1968) is a Swiss author, artist, consultant on mediation and conflict resolution, and advocate for preventing child abuse. She was a missionary kid who was sexually abused for five years as a child while her parents worked in Bolivia, translating the Bible into local languages. She told her story in a 2013 memoir called "Das Paradies war meine Hölle" ("Paradise Was My Hell"), and a documentary of her experiences was created by Swiss public television and was broadcast in 2014. She lives and works in Switzerland. Life Christina Krüsi's parents were linguists who travelled to Bolivia in 1966 with the Swiss division of Wycliffe Global Alliance to translate the Bible into the language of the Bolivia#Ethnic and racial classifications, Chiquitano people, as well as others. English via Google Translathere/ref> The Wycliffe group worked in conjunction with SIL International which ran the site in Tumi Chucua, in the northeast corner of Bolivia.Wycliffe Schwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Kaiser
Isabelle Kaiser (2 October 1866, in Beckenried – 17 February 1925, in Beckenried) was a Swiss writer who produced works in the French and German languages. She received the prize of the French Academy French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc .... Works French Poetry French poems: *''Ici-Bas'' (1888) *''Sous les étoiles'' (“Under the stars,” 1890) *''Des ailes'' (1897) *''Le jardin clos'' (1912) Novels and stories Other works in French: *''Cœur de femme'' (“Heart of a woman,”1891) *''Sorcière'' (1895) *''Héro'' (1898) *''Notre père qui êtes aux cieux'' (“Our father who is in heaven,” 1899) *''Vive le roi!'' (“Long live the king!,” 1903) *''L'Eclair dans la voile'' (1907) *''Marcienne de Fluë'' (1909) German Her works in German include: *''Wenn die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Johansen
Hanna Johansen, born Hanna Margarete Meyer (17 June 1939 in Bremen), is a Swiss writer. She studied classical philology, education and German studies at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen. From 1967 to 1969 she lived in Ithaca, New York, and in 1972 she moved with her then husband Adolf Muschg to Kilchberg, Zurich, where she still lives today. Johansen began her literary career as a translator of American avant garde authors, and soon moved on to original work, particularly stories for children. She published her first novel in 1978. She is a member of PEN Switzerland and of the ''Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung'' in Darmstadt. Prizes * 1980 Ehrengabe des Kantons Zürich * 1986 Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz-Preis * 1987 Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis (together with Martin Hamburger) * 1990 Schweizerischer Jugendbuchpreis * 1991 Kinderbuchpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen * 1993 Österreichischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis * 1993 Literaturpreis des Landes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoë Jenny
Zoë Jenny (born 1974 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. Her first novel, '' The Pollen Room'', was published in German in 1997 and has been translated into 27 languages. She lived in London. In 2008, she married Matthew Homfray, a British veterinary surgeon and pharmaceuticals consultant. Her newest novel, ''The Sky is Changing'', was her first written in English and was published by Legend Press in June 2010. She was awarded the Aspekte-Literaturpreis. Jenny lives in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST .... Bibliography * * * * * * For children * Written in English * English translations * References External links * 1974 births Living people Swiss women novelists 20th-century Swiss novelists German-language writers 21st-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleur Jaeggy
Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author who writes in Italian. ''The'' ''Times Literary Supplement'' named ''Proleterka'' as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her ''Sweet Days of Discipline'' won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. As of 2021, six of her books have been translated into English. Life She was born in Zürich. After completing her studies in Switzerland, Jaeggy went to live in Rome, where she met Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard. In 1968 she went to Milan to work for the publisher ''Adelphi Edizioni'' and married Roberto Calasso. Her first masterpiece was the novel ''I beati anni del castigo'' (1989). The ''Times Literary Supplement'' designated her novel ''Proleterka'' the best book of 2003. She is also a translator into Italian of Marcel Schwob and Thomas de Quincey. She worked with the Italian musician Franco Battiato, under the pseudonym of Carlotta Wieck. Selected bibliography Fiction *''Il dito in bocca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirjam Indermaur
Mirjam Lydia Indermaur (born 1967) is a Swiss businesswoman and author. In 2019 she co-wrote the book ''Ich habe einen Knall - Sie auch?'' with her therapist, Denise Hürlimann, about her experience with psychotherapy. Early life Indermaur was born in 1967 in Zug, Switzerland and is a member of the In der Maur family. She is a cousin of the poet Katherine Indermaur. Career Indermaur works as a marketing specialist for her husband's technical trading company and is the chief executive officer of Comate, a marketing agency. She also runs a text design office and works as a marketing specialist for the electronic cigarette company Happy-Smoke, owned by her family. Indermaur, who suffered from depression, began attending therapy with Denise Hürlimann, a trained psycho-oncologist and psychotherapist, after her husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer. After years of treatment with Hürlimann, Indermaur began recommending therapy to friends and colleagues. Indermaur and Hürli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Hersch
Jeanne Hersch (13 July 1910 – 5 June 2000) was a Swiss philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin, whose works dealt with the concept of freedom. She was the daughter of Liebman Hersch. Education and career Hersch was born in 1910 in Geneva, Switzerland. She later studied under the existentialist Karl Jaspers in Germany in the early 1930s. She taught French, Latin and Philosophy in the International School of Geneva, the world's first international school, for 33 years (1933-1956). In 1956, she was appointed to a professorship at the University of Geneva, one of the first women to hold such a post at a Swiss university, holding the post until 1977. From 1966 to 1968 she headed the philosophy division of UNESCO, and was a member of its executive commission from 1970 to 1972. In 1968 she edited ''Le droit d'être un homme, une anthologie mondiale de la liberté'' in French (translated in English in 1969 as ''Birthright of Man: A Selection of Texts'' and also in Greek as ''Το δ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eveline Hasler
Eveline Hasler (born 22 March 1933) is a Swiss writer. Born in Glarus, she studied Psychology and History at the University of Fribourg and worked as a teacher in St. Gallen. She has written novels (for adults) and children's books which have been translated into many languages. Her literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Eveline Hasler lives in Ticino. One of her most-read works is the novel ''Anna Goeldin – The Last Witch''. It fictionalizes one of the last witchcraft trials in Europe and was published in 1982, at the bicentennial of the execution of Anna Göldi. Her historical stories and novels "bring long-forgotten individuals and their experiences back to life, redressing to some extent the balance of history which has seen them marginalized or discounted." In many of her works, she reminds readers that "stability, one of the valued preserves of modern Swiss society, is a relatively recent privilege." ''Flying with Wings of Wax'' (1991) presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
