Maurice Zermatten
Maurice Zermatten (born October 22, 1910 in Saint-Martin , Wallis , † February 11, 2001 in Sion ) was a Swiss writer .
His home canton Wallis was at the center of Zermatt's literary work . He described people from the rural milieu in moral and religious borderline situations. His first novel Le coeur inutile was published in 1936; other novels are La Colère de Dieu (1940), Christine (1944) and La Porte blanche (1973).
He has also published works of literary criticism on several Swiss authors, including Charles Ferdinand Ramuz , Gonzague de Reynold and Léon Savary .
As president of the Swiss Writers' Association (1967-71), he sparked the spin-off of the Olten group, founded in 1970 , when he translated the official civil defense book into French, which in the spirit of the Cold War urged the population to spy on one another and was distributed to all households .
Awards
- Individual work prizes from the Swiss Schiller Foundation (1938 and 1946)
- Welti Foundation Prize for Drama (1951) for Isabelle de Chevron
- Gottfried Keller Prize (1959).
Web links
- Doris Jakubec: Zermatten, Maurice. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Literature by and about Maurice Zermatten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by Maurice Zermatten in the catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zermatten, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Martin , Valais |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 2001 |
| Place of death | Sion |