Pascale Kramer

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Pascale Kramer (2011)

Pascale Kramer (* 15. December 1961 in Geneva ) is a French-Swiss writer from the French-speaking Switzerland .

Life

Born in Geneva, Pascale Kramer came to Lausanne at the age of three , where she grew up. After graduating from the Lausanne Gymnase de la Cité, she first studied literature at the University of Lausanne . After a year and a half, she dropped out of college to turn to journalism, but then got into advertising. She settled in Zurich for six years and worked there in the team of the publicist and PR man Jacques Séguéla . She has lived and worked in Paris since 1987 , where she runs an advertising agency.

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Kramer published her first books Variations sur une même scène (1982) and Terres fécondes (1984) in Switzerland. There was more than ten years of silence before Manu appeared in Paris , for which Pascale Kramer received the Prix Michel-Dentan in 1996. After Le Bateau sec and Onze ans plus tard , she wrote the novel Les vivants , which was awarded the Prix Lipp Suisse 2001. His theme is the fundamental questioning of a couple, sibling and family relationship after the careless accidental death of the protagonist's two children.

2005 appeared Retour d'Uruguay , 2005 L'adieu au Nord , 2007 Fracas . The author received several awards for her book L'implacable brutalité du réveil (2009). The novel is set in California and is about a young woman overwhelmed by her motherhood. In 2011 Un homme ébranlé appeared , followed by Gloria two years later . In Autopsy d'un père (2016) a daughter investigates her deceased father, a radio journalist who is actually considered to be left-wing intellectual, who suddenly begins to attract attention with xenophobic statements. Six novels have been translated into German so far.

Awards

Works in German translation

  • The living. (Original title: Les vivants , 2000). Arche, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7160-2312-4 . New edition: Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85869-744-8 .
  • Back. (Original title: Retour d'Uruguay , 2003). Arche, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7160-2333-7 .
  • Farewell to the north. (Original title: L'Adieu au Nord , 2005). Arche, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-2367-9 .
  • The relentless brutality of awakening. (Original title: L'implacable brutalité du reveil , 2009). Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85869-555-0 .
  • Autopsy of the father. (Original title: Autopsy d'un père , 2016). Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85869-759-2 .
  • A family. (Original title: Une famille , 2018). Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85869-844-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA: The Swiss Grand Prix for Literature goes to Pascale Kramer. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  2. Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (February 9, 2014) .
  3. Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (September 3, 2017)
  4. Martin Zingg: Pascale Kramer tells of a world that has fallen out of joint. Book review in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 18, 2017
  5. Roman Bucheli: Unhappiness connects in a way that luck never was able to. Book review in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 10, 2019