S. Corinna Bille

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S. Corinna Bille (born August 29, 1912 in Lausanne as Stéphanie Bille; † October 24, 1979 in Sierre ) was a Swiss writer from French-speaking Switzerland .

Life

S. Corinna Bille was born as the daughter of the glass painter Edmond Bille and Catherine Tapparel from Corin (municipality of Crans-Montana ). During her year-long boarding school with the Dominicans in Lucerne , she learned of the death of her half-brother. In 1934 she married the actor Vital Geymond. She lived with him in Paris , traveled to Italy and Spain .

When she returned to Valais, she met the writer Maurice Chappaz ; they married in 1947 and had three children. In 1954 she published a story about a hike on foot with her husband to Maggia Valley . In 1957 they moved to Veyras .

In 1939 her first book, the collection of poems Printemps , was published, and in 1944 her first novel, Théoda . The main focus of her rich literary output, however, is her stories: with La Fraise noire (1968) she only became known beyond the Swiss border, with La Demoiselle sauvage (1974) she won the Prix ​​Goncourt de la Nouvelle .

She fell ill in 1979 during a trip to what was then the Soviet Union and died shortly afterwards in the Sierre hospital. Her estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Awards

Works (in German)

  • I will wander the land that you are. Correspondence with Maurice Chappaz, 1942–1979 ( Jours fastes ). German and edited by Lis Künzli. Edition Blau im Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85869-830-8
  • Two girls' lives. Stories ( Deux Passions , 1979). Wunderlich, Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-8052-0332-2
  • Rural pain. Short stories ( Douleurs paysannes , 1953). German by Elisabeth Dütsch. Introduction by Anne Cuneo . Limmat, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85791-147-6
  • A hundred little love stories. Stories ( Cent petites histoires d'amour , 1978). German by Elisabeth Dütsch. Im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1992, ISBN 3-7294-0078-9
  • Girl on white horse. Stories ( La Demoiselle sauvage , 1974). Im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1999, ISBN 3-7294-0222-6
  • The pleasure of holding a new world of your own. A reader. Huber, Frauenfeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7193-1482-8
  • From the Rhone to the Maggia. Story of a hike ( A Pied du Rhône à la Maggia , 1957). German by Hilde Fieguth. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85869-458-4
  • Dark woods. Roman ( Forêts obscures , 1989). German by Hilde Fieguth. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-471-3
  • Alpine flower harvest. Little prose ( Florilège alpestre , 1953). German by Hilde Fieguth. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-490-4
  • Black strawberries. Stories ( La Fraise noire , 1968). German by Marcel Schwander . Benziger, Zurich 1975; Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-312-00535-2
  • Théoda. Roman (original title: Théoda , 1944). Steinberg, Zurich 1964; Castella Verlag, Albeuve 1985; Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85869-585-7
  • Venus shoe. Novel ( Le Sabot de Vénus , 1952). German by Hilde Fieguth. Im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2007; Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85869-661-8
  • Forever Juliette. Roman ( Juliette éternelle , 1971). German by Lis Künzli. Edition Blau in Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85869-741-7

literature

  • Maryke de Courten: S. Corinna Bille. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 13, 2017 , accessed April 27, 2020 .
  • Jürg Altwegg : S. Corinna Bille - A master of the novella , in: Life and writing in French-speaking Switzerland . Ammann, Zurich 1983, pp. 71-75.
  • Charles Linsmayer : Life and work of the Swiss writer S. Corinna Bille. In: The pleasure of holding your own new world in your hand , pp. 259–352.
  • Sabine Haupt: "I was often completely drunk from you". Corinna Bille and Maurice Chappaz. in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 12, 2012. online
  • Sabine Haupt: The Breath of the Abyss. The Valais writer Corinna Bille. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 27, 2012. online
  • Sabine Haupt: Snow drifts under unknown constellations. Corinna Billes novel "Venus Shoe". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 24, 2008. online

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personal data
SURNAME Bille, S. Corinna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bille, Stéphanie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1979
Place of death Sierre