Amélie Plume (born 1943 in

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, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer.

Biography

She carried out her study of letters and

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at the Université de Neuchâtel. She voyaged to

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, Israel and

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where she taught French and began to write and paint. Returning to Switzerland, she opened a creative workshop for painting after having learned in Paris. She later devoted herself to writing.

Writings

Novels

* ' : récit, préf. de Catherine Safonoff,

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, 1981 * ', Editions Zoé, 1986 * ', Editions Zoé, 1988 * ', Editions Zoé, 1989 * ', Editions Zoé, 1992 * ', Editions Zoé, 1995 * ', postf. de Doris Jakubec, Editions Zoé, 1995 * ', Editions Zoé, (1984) 1997 * ', Editions Zoé, (1998) 2003 * ', Editions Zoé, 2003 * ', Editions Zoé, 2006 * ', Editions Zoé, 2007

Plays and radiophonic parts

* ' * ' : pièce de théâtre en cinq tableaux, Editions Trois P'tits Tours, 2000

Prizes

She received the

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in 1988 for the totality of her work.

Critical studies

* ''La langue et le politique : enquête auprès de quelques écrivains suisses de langue française'', éd., conc. et préf. par Patrick Amstutz, postf. de

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, 2001. p. 140.

References

1943 births Living people 20th-century Swiss novelists University of Neuchâtel alumni Swiss women novelists 21st-century Swiss novelists 21st-century Swiss women writers People from La Chaux-de-Fonds 20th-century Swiss women writers {{Switzerland-writer-stub