Margrit von Dach

Yla Margrit von Dach Guesnon (also: Margrit von Dach , born June 24, 1946 in Lyss , Canton Bern ) is a Swiss writer and translator .

Life

Yla Margrit von Dach completed a teacher training seminar in Bern . She then worked as a journalist . She attended the School for Applied Linguistics in Zurich , from which she graduated with a diploma . Stays in Bern, Paris and Biel followed . In 1980 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . The author now lives in Paris and Biel.

Yla Margrit von Dach is the author of narrative works. But mainly she translates from French .

Yla Margrit von Dach is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland .

Awards

• 1982 Book Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 1998 Prix d'encouragement pour traducteurs et traductrices de la collection CH = advancement award for translators = Premio d'incoraggiamento per traduttori e traduttrici
• 2000 Prix ​​lémanique de la traduction from the University of Lausanne
• 2016 Terra Nova Schiller Prize for literary translation for the novel Melken mit Stil by Jean-Pierre Rochat
• 2018 Special Award for Translation Swiss Literature Awards

Works

• Stories from the Miss. Publishing house Sauerländer , Aarau u. a. 1982 ISBN 3-7941-2271-2
• No man's day book. Zytglogge Verlag , Gümligen u. a. 1990 ISBN 3-7296-0339-6
• PhiloZoo Cortège des Animals Un Cortège des Animaux. Verlag die brotsuppe , Biel 2007, ISBN 978-3-905689-22-8
• The portrait. A world in fragments of mirrors. Verlag die brotsuppe , Biel 2020 ISBN 978-3-03867-001-8

Editor

• Le miroir aux traducteurs or how would you translate that? Lausanne 1992

Translations (selection)

• Nathacha Appanah : Blue Bay Palace. Basel 2006
• Michel Beretti: The nature of things. Lausanne 2003
• Jean-Claude Boré: words of the desert. Geneva 2003
• Michel Campiche: The sad child. Benziger , Zurich [u. a.] 1981
• Sylviane Chatelain: The manuscript. Bern 1998
• Catherine Colomb : Time of Angels. Heads or tails. Bern 1997 (translated together with Maria Dessauer)
• Isabelle Daccord: The grave. Lausanne 2000
• Isabelle Daccord: The rats, the roses. Lausanne 2001
• François Debluë: jubilation hustle and bustle. Zurich 1993
• Marie-Claire Dewarrat: The winter of the comet. Zurich 1989; Basel again in 2004
• Marie Féraud: Like angels without wings. Aarau u. a. 1982
• Alice Ferney : A chain of beautiful women. Reinbek 1997
• Markus Hediger : Ne retournez pas la pierre - don't turn the stone. Français - Deutsch (CD Audio), Arsmedia, Schöftland 1999
• Markus Hediger: Va-t'en. Oublie / Go. Forget Poems 1981–2013, translation with the collaboration of the author, Wolfbach Verlag , Zurich 2014, ISBN 9783905910476
• Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet : Escape route through the back door. Frauenfeld 1987
• Monique Laederach : Alone through the labyrinth. Zurich 1985
• Monique Laederach: Too small for God. Zurich 1988
• Janine Massard: Three weddings. Bern 1999
• Michel Layaz: The happy morality of the place to stay . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2014
• Michel Layaz: On the treadmill . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2017
• Marco Paoluzzo: Ethiopia. Bern [u. a.] 2007 (translated together with Lucy Délèze-Black)
• Reza : Kurds. Berne 1995 (translated with Catherine Touaibi and Esther Woerdehoff)
• Marius Daniel Popescu: The colors of the swallow . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2017
• Jean-Pierre Richardot: The other Switzerland. Berlin 2005 (translated together with Gabriela Zehnder)
• Jean-Pierre Rochat: Milking in style . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2015
• Jean-Pierre Rochat: streak of fog . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2019
• Sylviane Roche: The Salon Pompadour. Solothurn u. a. 1995
• Henri Roorda : My suicide . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2010
• Henri Roorda : A Lukewarm Planet With Lice: Contemplations of a Citizen of the World . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2011
• Henri Roorda : The Thinking Reed: Selected Chronicles . Publishing house die brotsuppe , Biel 2013
• Antoinette Rychner: The price . Verlag die brotsuppe , Biel 2018
• Catherine Safonoff : The repentance. Zurich u. a. 1986
• Jean-Michel Thibaux: The Burning Souls. Zurich 1991
• Jean-Michel Thibaux: The icy gold. Zurich u. a. 1996
• Jean-Michel Thibaux: The Secret of the Abbé Saunière. Bergisch Gladbach 2006
• Jean-Michel Thibaux: The Devil's Gold. Zurich 1989
• Jean-Michel Thibaux: The Seven Spirits of Revolt. Zurich 1993
• Henri Troyat : Rasputin. Düsseldorf u. a. 1998
• Alexandre Voisard : The year of the thirteen moons. Zurich u. a. 1985
• Marc Vuilleumier: Refugees and Immigrants in Switzerland. Zurich 1989

Web links

• Publications by and about Margrit von Dach in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• The author in the translator database at AdS - Authors of Switzerland , 2018
• from roof to the craft of translation (in French), interview with Marion Graf for Le Temps , 2000