Roland Buti

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Roland Buti, 2017

Roland Buti , actually Roland Bütikofer (born January 25, 1964 in Lausanne ), is a Swiss writer .

life and work

Buti studied history and literature and received his doctorate in 1996 with a sensational dissertation on the extreme right in Switzerland from 1919 to 1945. He works as a high school history teacher.

His first work was the volume of short stories Les âmes lestées , published in 1990 . In 2004 his first novel Un Nuage sur l'œil was published , awarded the Prix Bibliomedia 2005. The novel Luce et Célie , published in 2007, was included in the Sélection Lettres frontière 2008. His most recent novel Das Flirren am Horizont ( Le milieu de l'horizon ) was published in German by Nagel & Kimche Verlag . It was nominated for the Prix ​​Médicis as best novel in 2013 and was awarded the Swiss Literature Prize in 2014. The novel plot is not autobiographical. The plot takes place from the point of view of the 13-year-old boy Gus and deals in powerful, colorful language with the moment of the collapse of a world: his parents 'traditional agriculture, his parents' relationship and his own childlike innocence in the summer of 1976 with its legendary drought.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roland Butikofer: Le refus de la modernity. La Ligue vaudoise: une extreme droite et la Suisse (1919–1945). Payot, Lausanne 1996, ISBN 2-601-03193-X .
  2. ↑ HanserLiteraturverlage: Roland Buti
  3. ↑ a b Swiss Literature Prize  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.literaturpreise.ch  
personal data
SURNAME Buti, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bütikofer, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne , Switzerland