Étienne Barilier
Étienne Barilier (born October 11, 1947 in Payerne ) is a French-speaking Swiss writer and translator .
Life
Étienne Barilier studied literature at the University of Lausanne and did her doctorate on Albert Camus . In addition to his numerous novels and essays of his own, he has translated works by German-speaking authors such as Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Heinrich Heine , Ludwig Hohl , Adolf Muschg and Frank Wedekind , and more rarely by Italian-speaking authors into French. Mention should be made here of Tommaso Landolfi .
Barilier is a member of the Swiss authors ' association and lives in Pully on Lake Geneva . His archive is located in the Swiss Literature Archive in Bern .
Awards
- 1974 and 1981 individual work prizes from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1978 Prix d'honneur Paris
- 1980 Prix Rambert for Prague
- 1995 Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon for Contre le nouvel obscurantisme
- 1997 Prix lémanique de la traduction
- 2002 Prix Michel Dentan for L'Enigme
- 2005 Commissioned by the Pro Helvetia Foundation
Works (in German)
- Night talks (OT: Le Chien Tristan ). From the Franz. By Klara Obermüller . Benziger , Zurich 1979
- The artificial lover (OT: La Créature ). From the Franz. By Ursula Dubois. Benziger, Zurich 1990
- The cat Musica (OT: Musique ). From the Franz. By Markus Hediger . Benziger, Zurich 1991
- Martina Hingis or the beauty of the game . From the Franz. By Horst Stasius. Reinhardt, Basel 1997
- Against the new obscurantism. Praise for progress . From the Franz. By Ulrich Kunzmann. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-12099-9 (= edition suhrkamp 2099)
- According to the ideologies . With drawings by Martial Leiter . Vontobel Foundation , Zurich 2001
- China at the piano (OT: Piano chinois ). From the Franz. By Gabriela Zehnder. Verlag die brotsuppe , Biel 2014, ISBN 978-3-905689-46-4
literature
- Jürg Altwegg : Etienne Barilier - literature and philosophy. In: Jürg Altwegg: Living and writing in French-speaking countries. Portraits, conversations and essays from French-speaking Switzerland. Ammann, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-01005-7 , pp. 76-85.
Web links
- Publications by and about Étienne Barilier in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Étienne Barilier archive in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Étienne Barilier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
- Entry about Étienne Barilier in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barilier, Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-speaking Swiss writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Payerne , Switzerland |