Gaston Cherpillod
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Gaston Cherpillod (born October 24, 1925 in Lausanne , † October 9, 2012 in Le Lieu ) was a French-speaking Swiss writer .
Life
Gaston Cherpillod, son of a watch worker, studied classical philology at the University of Lausanne . After the licentiate he worked from 1951 to 1983 as a teacher. In 1953 he joined the Parti Ouvrier Populaire (POP) and sat in the Lausanne city parliament until 1956. After he had lost his teaching post because of his political views, he first moved to Le Locle in Neuchâtel , then in 1957 to southern France for three years . Back in Switzerland, he left in 1960, the POP Later he was again politically active. From 1978 to 1985 he represented the Union progressiste the council of Renens . Then he ran for the socialist-green alternative for the Vaudois government and the Council of States .
Cherpillod has emerged primarily as a prose writer; he has also published three volumes of poetry and a play. Only his first work from 1969, the story Le chêne brûlé , was translated into German. In 1971, when it was founded, he joined the Olten group .
Awards
- 1976 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1986 Prize for individual work from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
- 1992 Prix des écrivains vaudois
Works (in German translation)
- Thunderstorm oaks . Translated from the French by Marcel Schwander . Benziger, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-545-36297-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gaston Cherpillod in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Gaston Cherpillod in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Pierre-André Rieben / MF: Cherpillod, Gaston. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gaston Cherpillod has died . Obituary in the Tages-Anzeiger on October 10, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gaston Cherpillod (1925–2012) ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ecrivains vaudois, website of the Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire Lausanne , accessed on November 2, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cherpillod, Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 2012 |
| Place of death | Le Lieu |