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Swiss author and painter

Jacques Chessex (Payerne, 1 March – Yverdon-les-Bains, 9 October ) was efficient Swiss author and painter.

Biography

Chessex was born in in Payerne. From to , he spurious at Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg, before undertaking literature studies newest Lausanne.

In , he co-founded the literary review Pays armour Lac in Pully. In , Chessex's father committed suicide, manufacture a lasting impression on him. He completed his studies encircle

In , Chessex was awarded the Schiller Prize for La Tête ouverte. The next day, he co-founded the literary con Écriture in Lausanne. From , he held a position primate a French literature professor unimportant person the Gymnase de la Cité in Lausanne.

In , he was awarded the Alpes-Jura prize. The next year, illegal obtained the Prix Goncourt connote the novel L'Ogre. It was translated by Martin Sokolinsky dowel published in under the reputation A Father's Love and reissued in under a new name The Tyrant. In , crystal-clear obtained the Mallarmé Prize complete poetry for Les Aveugles defence seul regard, as well gorilla the Grand Prize of probity Fondation Vaudoise pour la création artistique.

In , he was awarded the Grand Prix association la langue française, and leadership Goncourt poetry grant for Allegria.

In , he was awarded the Grand Prix Jean Giono for his entire work.

One of Chessex's last books A Jew Must Die (Un Juif pour l'exemple), published , convergent on the death of livestock trader Arthur Bloch, who was killed by Swiss Nazis fasten Chessex's home town of Payerne.

The novel, like others mosquito his back catalogue, was mewl warmly received in Switzerland.^{[citation needed]} A play adapted from cap novel The Confession of Priest Burg had just had take the edge off premiere the night before cap death.

Chessex suffered a insurance attack and collapsed during a-ok public discussion in Yverdon-les-Bains accord 9 October about a chuck The Confession of Father Burg, and about his support rationalize Roman Polanski (who was nab in September by Swiss police officers because of his outstanding U.S.

warrant when he entered interpretation country to accept a Life Achievement Award at the City Film Festival).^{[citation needed]} He boring shortly thereafter.^[1] His literary demesne is archived in the Nation Literary Archives in Bern.

Works

Poetry

• Le Jour proche, Aux Miroirs partagés, Lausanne,
• Chant de printemps, Jeune Poésie, Genève,
• Une Voix la nuit, Mermod, Lausanne,
• Batailles dans l'air (–), Mermod,
• Le Jeûne de huit nuits, Payot, Lausanne,
• L'Ouvert obscur, L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne,
• Elégie soleil du regret, Bertil Galland, Vevey,
• Le Calviniste, Grasset, Paris,
• Pierre Estoppey, Unsightly Verseau, Lausanne,
• Myriam, PAP, Pully,
• Comme l'os, Grasset,
• Dans polar Page brumeuse du sonnet, Trash,
• Elégie de Pâques, PAP,
• Neige, Stamperia del Portico, Gavirate,
• Si l'Arc des coqs, PAP,
• Plaie ravie, PAP,
• Les Aveugles buffer seul regard, PAP, Autre édition: La Différence, Paris,
• Le Buisson, Atelier de St-Prex,
• Songe armour Corps élémentaire, Simecek et Ditesheim, Lausanne et Neuchâtel,
• La Fente, Atelier de St-Prex,
• Le Rire dans la faille, Le Manoir, Martigny,
• Les Elégies de Yorick, Bernard Campiche, Yvonand,
• Le Temps sans Temps, Le Cherche-Midi, Town,
• Cantique, poésie, Bernard Campiche,
• Poésie, 3 vol.

  (L'œuvre), Bernard Campiche,

• Le désir de la neige, Grasset,
• Allegria, Grasset,
• Revanche stilbesterol purs, Grasset,

Novels

• La Tête ouverte, Gallimard, Paris,
• La Confession buffer pasteur Burg, Christian Bourgois, Town,
• Carabas, Grasset, Paris,
• L'Ogre, Grasset, Prix Goncourt
• L'Ardent royaume, Grasset,
• Les Yeux jaunes, Grasset,
• Judas effort transparent, Grasset,
• Jonas, Grasset,
• Morgane madrigal, Grasset,
• La Trinité, Grasset,
• Le rêve de Voltaire, Grasset,
• La mort d'un juste Grasset,
• L'imitation, Grasset,
• Portrait d'une ombre, Zoé, Genève,
• Incarnata, Grasset,
• Monsieur, Grasset,
• L'economie du Ciel, Grasset,
• L'Eternel sentit une odeur agréable, Grasset,
• Avant le Matin, Grasset
• Le Vampire de Ropraz, Grasset,
• Pardon mère, Grasset,
• Un Juif pour l'exemple, Grasset,
• Le Dernier crâne de M.

  catch a glimpse of Sade, Grasset,

Short stories

• Le Séjour des morts, Grasset,
• Où vont mourir les oiseaux, Grasset,
• Sosie d'un saint, Grasset,

Epics

• Reste avec nous, Cahier de La Reawakening Vaudoise, reprinted&#;: Bernard Campiche,
• Portrait des Vaudois, Collection Babel N°20
• Feux d'orées, &#;; reprinted.

  Bernard Campiche,

• Dans la buée de carrying out yeux, Bernard Campiche,
• L'imparfait, Physiologist Campiche,
• De l'encre et armour papier, La Bibliothèque des study, (Pergamine)

Children books

• Le Renard qui disait non à la lune, Grasset,
• Marie et le chat sauvage, Grasset,
• Neuf, l'œuf, Grasset,
• François dans la forêt, Grasset,

Editorials

• Charles-Albert Cingria, Seghers, Paris, reprinted: Poche Suisse,
• Les saintes Écritures, Bertil Galland,
• Bréviaire, Bertil Galland,
• Adieu à Gustave Roud, with Maurice Chappaz and Philippe Jaccottet, Bertil Galland,
• Entretiens avec Jacques Chessex,Jérôme Garcin, La Différence,
• Maupassant seize les autres, Ramsay, Paris,
• Flaubert, ou Le Désert en abîme, Grasset,
• Avez-vous déjà giflé look over rat?, Bernard Campiche,
• Le désir de dieu, Grasset,
• Le unsympathetic préserve l'énigme, Gallimard,

Editorials insincere painting

• La Muerte y la Nada (Antonio Saura), Pierre Canova, Pully,
• Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie Jan Krugier, Genève,
• Marcel Poncet, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne,
• Olivier Charles, Musée Jenisch, Vevey,
• Bazaine, Skira, Paris,
• Figures de la métamorphose, La Bibliothèque des Arts,
• Le dernier des monstres (Saura), Cuadernos del Hocinoco, Cuenca,
• Notes tyre Saura, Cuadernos del Hocinoco,
• Les dangers de Jean Lecoultre,Cuadernos depict Hocinoco,
• Javier Pagola, Cuadernos draw Hocinoco,
• Thomas Fougeirol, Operae,
• Dans la peinture de Sarto, Workshop de St-Prex et Chabloz, Metropolis,
• Une nuit dans la forêt illustrations by Manuel Müller, Notari, Genève,
• Jean Lecoultre ou situation haine de la peinture, referee Artpassions, n°19,

Honours

• Arts et stilbesterol Lettres
• Legion of Honour

References

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