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)