Jacques Chessex

Jacques Chessex ( born March 1, 1934 in Payerne, Vaud Canton; † 9 October, 2009 Yverdon- les- Bains, Vaud Canton ) was a French-speaking writers from Switzerland.

Life

His father Pierre was director of a Chessex Progymnasium. Jacques Chessex attended schools in Payerne, Lausanne and Fribourg, studied humanities in Lausanne and was then as a French teacher at the local Gymnase de la Cité active. For the novel L' Ogre, whose title refers to the Kindlifresserbrunnen in Bern, he received in 1973 as the first non- Frenchman ( and so far only Swiss ) the Prix Goncourt. His estate is located in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

Chessex died during a panel discussion on one of his works.

A great stir, particularly in Switzerland, excited the last work of Chessex, the novel was published in 2009 "Un Juif pour l' exemple ". Jacques Chessex told in this novel the historically authentic story of Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle dealer from Bern, who was murdered on April 16, 1942 in Payerne from Frontists.

Works (selection)

  • Jour proche, collection of poems, 1954
  • La Tête ouverte, 1962
  • La Confession du pasteur Burg, 1967
  • Portrait of the Vaudois, 1969 ( German Marcel Schwander: Life and Death in the canton of Vaud )
  • Les Saintes écritures, 1972
  • L' Ogre, 1973 ( German Marcel Schwander: Child Eater )
  • L' ardent royaume, 1975 ( German Marcel Schwander: Mona )
  • Les Yeux jaunes, 1979 ( German Marcel Schwander: amber eyes)
  • Judas le transparently, 1982.
  • In cinq sens, with illustrations by Étienne Delessert. Roth and Sauter, Lausanne Denges - 1983. German Marcel Schwander: The five senses, Roth and Sauter, Lausanne Denges - 1983.

Poems in German at:

  • Philippe Jaccottet: The Poetry of Romandie. A bilingual anthology. German by Elisabeth Edl and Wolfgang Matz. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2008

Awards

  • Schiller Prix 1963
  • Prix ​​Alpes -Jura 1971
  • Prix ​​Goncourt 1973
  • Diplôme d' honneur Hans Christian Andersen 1982
  • Grand Prix du rayonnement Académie française in 1983
  • Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1984
  • Prix ​​Mallarmé 1994
  • Grand Prix de la Langue française in 1999
  • Chevalier de la Légion d' Honneur in 2002
  • Grand Prix Jean Giono 2007
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