Elisabeth Meylan

Elisabeth Meylan (* 14. June 1937 in Basel as Elisabeth Bartlin ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Elisabeth Meylan completed her studies in German and Romance studies at the University of Basel after attending a girls' high school and a arts and crafts school , from which she graduated in 1968 with a doctorate . She then worked as a teacher, publishing editor and magazine editor . In 1981 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Since 1987 she has lived as a freelance writer in Basel.

Elisabeth Meylan is the author of prose works and poems . She is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Schiller Foundation from 1981 to 1996 .

Awards

• 1973 Commissioned by the Pro Helvetia Foundation
• 1975 working year for the city of Zurich
• 1976 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation

Works

• Rooms, unfurnished . 7 stories. Artemis, Zurich 1972
• Draft to a plane . Poems. Arche, Zurich 1973
• The duration of the facades . Novel. Arche, Zurich 1975
• In the course of a single day . Poems. Arche, Zurich 1978
• Until the break of the morning . Novel. Arche, Zurich 1980
• Between sky and hill . Stories. Pendo, Zurich 1989
• The unrest inside the monument . Poems. Pendo, Zurich 1991
• The end of Weinberg's silence . Novel. Pendo, Zurich 1992
• The very next things . Poems. Pendo, Zurich 1994
• Suite . Stories. Pendo, Zurich 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Meylan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Elisabeth Meylan in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory