Alix de Watteville
Alix de Watteville , pseudonym Alville (born June 29, 1889 in Elfenau near Bern , † 1964 ) was a Swiss writer .
Life
Watteville grew up in a patrician conservative environment, married an engineer and had two children. She was charitable, engaged in social activities (“took part in the work of a major peace movement during the First World War”) and later devoted herself to writing. Under the pseudonym Alville she published "historical books, religious dramas, short stories, radio plays and newspaper articles in French". Her goal was to “capture and reproduce life as objectively as possible”. In 1948 she was awarded the Literature Prize of the City of Bern for La vie en Suisse de SAI la grande-duchesse Anna Feodorovna . Alville's papers are in the Bern Burger Library and in the Bibliothèque de Genève .
Publications (selection)
- La folie de l'Espace , Neuchâtel / Paris: Delachaux & Niestlé, 1925
- Trilogie du repentir: Marie-Madeleine, Judas, Pierre , Lausanne: La Concorde, 1941
- La vie en Suisse de SAI la grande-duchesse Anna Feodorovna, neo princesse de Saxe-Cobourg-Saalfeld , Lausanne, F. Rouge, 1942
- Un Suisse, officier d'ordonnance de Napoléon, Albert de Watteville, 1789-1812 , Lausanne, F. Rouge, 1951
Web links
- Short biography of Alville in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
- Literature by and about Alix de Watteville in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Alville on Literapedia Bern
- ↑ Bern literature 1925-1950. Francke 1949, pp. 8-10. OCLC 600519076
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watteville, Alix de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elfenau near Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1964 |