Zora del Buono
Zora del Buono (born December 21, 1962 in Zurich ) is a Swiss architect , journalist and writer .
Life
Zora del Buono grew up in Zurich and Bari . Nikolaus Gelpke was her classmate at the high school in Zurich .
She studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and at the University of the Arts Berlin , graduating in 1990 with a diploma. From 1990 to 1995 she worked as an architect in Berlin, after which she completed a postgraduate degree in scenography .
In 1996 she was co-founder and culture editor of the marine magazine Mare , the editor-in-chief of Mare is Nikolaus Gelpke. From 2001 to 2008 she was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine.
She presented her debut novel Canitz 'Desires in 2008. The southern novel Big Sue followed in 2010 . Her travel book One Hundred Days of America: Encounters between Newfoundland and Key West was awarded the ITB BookAward 2012 as a literary travel book . In 2015, the Gotthard novella followed , which takes place on one day around the work of the Gotthard Base Tunnel . In the same year, she published her literary travel book The Life of the Mighty - Journeys to Ancient Trees , for which she visited 14 of the oldest trees in the world. Her campus novel Hinter Büschen was published in 2016, leaning against a house wall, for which she received an award from the city of Zurich in 2016 and from the Canton of Zurich in 2017.
Works
- Forest house Sils. A family affair since 1908. Photos by Stefan Pielow. Waldhaus, Sils-Maria 2008, ISBN 978-3-033-01546-3 .
- Canitz's desire. Novel. Mare, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86648-091-9 .
- Big Sue. Novel. Mare, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86648-135-0 .
- One Hundred Days of America: Encounters between Newfoundland and Key West. Mare, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86648-145-9 .
- Gotthard. Novelle, CH Beck , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68184-4 .
- The life of the mighty - journeys to ancient trees. Edited by Judith Schalansky , Matthes & Seitz Berlin , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-165-6 .
- Behind bushes, leaning against a house wall . Roman, CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69690-9 .
- The marshal . Roman, CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-75482-1 .
Web links
- Personal website
- Literature by and about Zora del Buono in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Zora del Buono in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Alain Claude Sulzer: In a roundabout way . In: Die Zeit , edition 7/2012 of February 9, 2012 ( online version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait at mare ( Memento from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ITB Book Awards 2012 , press release from January 24, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buono, Zora del |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buono, Zora Del |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |