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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (24 September 1878 – 23 May 1947) was a
French-speaking
Swiss
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writer.
Biography
He was born in
Lausanne
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in the canton of
Vaud
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and was educated at the
University of Lausanne
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. He taught briefly in nearby
Aubonne
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History
The municipality was settled v ...
, and then in
Weimar
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, Germany. In 1903, he left for
Paris
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and remained there until
World War I
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, with frequent trips home to Switzerland. As part of his studies in Paris he wrote a thesis on the poet
Maurice de Guérin
Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 181019 July 1839) was a French poet. His works were imbued with a passion for nature whose intensity reached almost to worship and was enriched by pagan elements. According to Sainte-Beuve, no French poet or ...
.
In 1903, he published ''Le petit village'', a collection of poems.
In 1914, he returned to Switzerland.
He wrote the libretto for
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the ...
's ''
Histoire du soldat
' (''The Soldier's Tale'') is a theatrical work "to be read, played, and danced" () by three actors and one or several dancers, accompanied by a septet of instruments. Conceived by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, the piece was base ...
''.
He died in
Pully
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, near Lausanne in 1947.
His likeness and an artistic impression of his works appear on the 200
Swiss franc
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note (no longer in current use).
The Foundation C.F. Ramuz in Pully awards the
Grand Prix C. F. Ramuz.
Works
*''Le petit village'' (1903)
*''Aline'' (1905)
*''Jean-Luc persécuté'' (1909)
*''Aimé Pache, peintre vaudois'' (1911)
*''Vie de Samuel Belet'' (1913)
*''Raison d'être'' (1914)
*''Le règne de l'esprit malin'' (1917) / ''The Reign of the Evil One'', translated by James Whitall (
Onesuch Press, 2014)
*''La guérison des malades'' (1917)
*''Les signes parmi nous'' (1919)
*''Salutation paysanne'' (1919)
*''Terre du ciel'' (1921)
*''Présence de la mort'' (1922)
*''La séparation des races'' (1922)
*''Passage du poète'' (1923)
*''L'amour du monde'' (1925)
* ''Chant de notre Rhône.''(1920) / ''Riversong of the Rhone'', translated by Patti M. Marxsen (Onesuch Press, 2015)
*''La grande peur dans la montagne'' (1926) / ''Terror on the Mountain'', translated by Milton Stansbury (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967)
* ''La beauté sur la terre'' (1927) / ''Beauty on Earth'', translated by Michelle Bailat-Jones (Onesuch Press, 2014)
*''Adam et Eve'' (1932)
*''Farinet, ou la fausse monnaie'' (1932)
*''Derborence'' (1934) / ''When the Mountain Fell'', translated by Sarah Fisher Scott (Pantheon Books, 1947)
*''Questions'' (1935)
*''Le garçon savoyard'' (1936)
*''Taille de l'homme'' (1937)
*''Besoin de grandeur'' (1937)
* ''Si le soleil ne revenait pas...'' (1937) / ''As if the Sun were Never to Return'', translated by Michelle Bailat-Jones (Onesuch Press, 2015)
*''Paris, notes d'un vaudois'' (1938)
*''Découverte du monde'' (1939)
*''La guerre aux papiers'' (1942)
*''René Auberjonois'' (1943)
*''Nouvelles'' (1944)
Awards
*1927
Prix Gottfried Keller
The Gottfried-Keller-Preis, prix Gottfried-Keller, or premio Gottfried Keller is one of the oldest literary awards of Switzerland. The prize was created by Martin Bodmer and is named after the Swiss author Gottfried Keller. It is awarded every two ...
See also
*
Swiss literature
Notes and references
External links
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz in the
Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
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The encyclopedia is publishe ...
.
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Biography of C.F. RamuzFrench eds. of seven feature film adaptationsof novels by Ramuz
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1878 births
1947 deaths
People from Lausanne
Swiss writers
University of Lausanne alumni
Swiss male novelists
Swiss writers in French