Jeanlouis Cornuz
Jeanlouis Cornuz (born February 17, 1922 in Lausanne , † October 14, 2007 in Goumoens-la-Ville ) was a French-speaking Swiss writer and translator .
Life
Jeanlouis Cornuz studied at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich and did his doctorate on the French historian Jules Michelet . He worked as a teacher, journalist and interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials . From 1994 to 2000 he was a member of the Cantonal Parliament of Vaud (Grand Conseil) for the Parti ouvrier et populaire (POP) .
Cornuz has mainly published novels and essays, in addition to translating works by Ernst Wiechert , Gottfried Keller and Walter Matthias Diggelmann into French. He was one of the founders of the Olten Group .
Awards
- 1981 Prix des écrivains vaudois
- 1991 Entire Works Prize from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
Works
Novels
- La vieille femme . Viaduc, o.r. 1954
- Le refractaire . Rencontre, Lausanne 1964
- Parce que c'était toi . La Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1966
- Le professeur . Favre, Lausanne 1981
- Les désastres de la guerre . L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 1994
- Les caprices . L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 2000
Essay volumes, non-fiction books
- Jules Michelet, an aspect du sentiment religieux au XIXe siècle . Dissertation. Droz, Genève 1955
- Les USA à l'heure du LSD . La Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1968
- Contribution in: Rollier . Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1969
- Reconnaissance d'Edmond Gilliard . L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 1975
- Portraits sans réserves . Payot, Lausanne 1977
- André Dhôtel, romancier du Grand Pays . Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1981
- Victor Hugo. L'homme des “Misérables” . Favre, Lausanne 1985
- Gottfried Keller . Favre, Lausanne 1990
Plays
- La Grande Année 1968 . Oratorio. Ed. de la Thièle, Yverdon-les-Bains 1979
- Séance ordinaire , first performed: Solothurn 1972
- Jusqu'à la victoire finale , first performed: Solothurn 1973
radio play
- Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard , RSR 1976
Translations
- Ernst Wiechert: Le buffle blanc . Rencontre, Lausanne 1962
- Gottfried Keller: L'épigramme . L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 1974
- Walter Matthias Diggelmann: L'interrogatoire de Harry Wind . Zoé, Genève 1983
- Gottfried Keller: Martin Salander . Zoé, Genève 1991
Web links
- Literature by and about Jeanlouis Cornuz in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Entry about Jeanlouis Cornuz in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Françoise Fornerod / KMG: Cornuz, Jeanlouis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Entry in the bibliomedia foundation's authors' directory (French)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cornuz, Jeanlouis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-speaking Swiss writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 2007 |
Place of death | Goumoens-la-Ville |