Gabrielle Alioth

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Gabrielle Alioth

Gabrielle Alioth (born April 21, 1955 in Basel ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Gabrielle Alioth grew up in Riehen and studied economics , art history and philosophy at the universities in Basel and Salzburg . She completed her studies with a licentiate degree . From 1979 she was assistant for operations research at the University of Basel and research assistant at Prognos AG.

In 1984 she moved to Ireland with her then husband, the historian and journalist Martin Alioth (divorced in 2015), where she initially worked as a journalist and translator and has worked as a freelance writer since 1990. Since 2010 she lives in Termonfeckin ( County Louth , north of Dublin). In 1991 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Gabrielle Alioth is a writer of novels , short stories , children's books and travelogues .

Gabrielle Alioth is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland , the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad and was a member of the program committee of the Solothurn Literature Days from 2017 to 2020. In 1991 she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize . In 2020 she received the culture award of the municipality of Riehen.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • The fool . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1990
  • Like a precious stone . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1994
  • Women's Ark . Nagel & Kimche Zurich 1996
  • The mute rider . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1998
  • The magic light . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2001
  • In the valley of shadows . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002
  • The invention of love and death . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2003
  • The scrutinizing look . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2007
  • The bride from Byzantium . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2008
  • The Greek Empress . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2011
  • The stolen handwriting . Lenos, Basel 2016
  • The woman from Thebes . SJW , Zurich 2016
  • Tell - my father . SJW , Zurich 2018
  • Gallus the Stranger . Lenos, Basel 2018
  • In the bear's library . SJW , Zurich 2019

Poetry

  • The Poet's Coat - The poet's coat . Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2019

Non-fiction

  • Shared - 24 life stories of women from Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft . Limmat, Zurich 2008
  • Emigrated - Swiss emigrants from 7 centuries . Faro, Lenzburg 2014

Travel books

  • Ireland. A journey through the land of rainbows . Sanssouci, Munich 2003
  • Ireland, with Northern Ireland . Photos by Max Schmid. Terra magica, Lucerne 2004
  • Ireland . Photos by Marco Paoluzzo. Mondo, Vevey 2007
  • Ireland at second sight. An island in thirty texts . bod, Norderstedt, 2012

Plays

  • Trouble uf de Arche , world premiere: Children's Theater Zug on September 1, 2006
  • Orpheus! , World premiere: December 7th, 2006, Hagerbach experimental tunnel , Sargans

Contributions to anthologies (selection)

  • The Janusstein , essay, in: Open questions , ed. by Chaim Noll. Synchron, Heidelberg 2005
  • The scholar , short story, in: Wissen und Gewissen - a literary anthology , ed. by Hartmut Abendschein & Franz Dodel, Bern 2005
  • The relatives , short story, in: Drehpunkt - Die Schweizer Literaturzeitschrift , 121, ed. by Rudolf Bussmann and Martin Zingg, Basel, April 2005
  • The dream interpretation of a Sleeping Beauty , essay in: The great book of Austrian charm , ed. from the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Vienna 2005
  • Dear Switzerland , essay in: “I am writing to you because I am not with you” Letters to Switzerland , ed. by Madeleine Weishaupt, Edition Knurrhahn, Nuremberg 2006
  • Maria Stern , short story in: TRANS-LIT2, edited by Irmgard Hunt and Jolyon T. Hughes, Vol. XII / 2, autumn 2006
  • Im Narrenspiegel , essay, in: Conventions, Steps into the Open, Zurich, 6, 2007

Editing

  • How good that nobody knows . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2004
  • Update - 75 Years of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad , ed. together with Hans-Christian Oeser. Synchron, 2008
  • At the Crossroads of Times - Authors Write About Authors , ed. together with Hans-Christian Oeser. Synchron, 2012
  • Go and Stay - Authors Write About Authors , ed. together with Martin Dreyfus. Synchron, 2014
  • Everything Changes - Echoes of Ovid , ed. together with Hans-Christian Oeser. P&L Edition, Munich 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Alioth, Gabrielle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel