Maurice Chappaz ( fr. Maurice Chappaz , December 21, 1916 , Lausanne - January 15, 2009 , Martigny ) - Swiss poet, prose writer, translator, wrote in French.
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Biography
He graduated from a private school at the Abbey of St. Mauritius in the canton of Valais . He entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Lausanne , then transferred to the Faculty of Philology of the University of Geneva , but a few months later left him. The first steps of Schappase in literature were supported by Charles Ferdinand Ramu and Gustave Roux , with the latter he was friends and corresponded until his death.
In 1942 he met Korina Biy , whom she married in 1947 , they had three children. He traveled to Europe and the world, visited Lapland, Tibet, Russia ( 1974 and 1979 ) and China, Lebanon, the USA and Canada. He was engaged in journalism, devoted much effort to ecology, changed several professions, take-off times gave way to periods of severe depression.
After the death of Corina, Biy in 1979 was engaged in the publication of her legacy, translated Virgil and Theocritus . Schappase's books have been illustrated more than once by major artists, more often than others by Gerard de Palezieu .
Selected Works
- Les Grandes Journées de printemps ( 1944 , reprint 1966 )
- Testament of the Upper Rhone / Testament du Haut-Rhône ( 1953 , reprint 1966 , 2003 )
- Le Valais au gosier de grive ( 1960 )
- Chant de la Grande Dixence ( 1965 )
- Un homme qui vivait couché sur un banc ( 1966 )
- Memorial Service / Office des morts ( 1966 )
- Tendres Campagnes ( 1966 )
- The Green of the Night / Verdures de la nuit ( 1966 )
- La Tentation de l'Orient: lettres autour du monde ( 1970 )
- La Haute route, suivi du Journal des 4,000 ( 1974 , reprint 1995 , 2007 , 2011 )
- Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches ( 1976 )
- Portrait des Valaisans: en légende et en vérité ( 1976 )
- Adieu à Gustave Roud (1977, co-authored with Philippe Jacques and Jacques Chesse )
- Favorites / Pages choisies: avec un inédit ( 1977 )
- Poems / Poésie ( 1980 )
- À rire et à mourir: récits, paraboles et chansons du lointain pays ( 1983 )
- Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches , précédé de La Haine du passé ( 1984 )
- Journal des 4000 ( 1985 )
- Le Livre de C ( 1987 )
- Le Garçon qui croyait au paradis , novel ( 1989 )
- La Veillée des Vikings , prose ( 1990 )
- Le Gagne-pain du songe: correspondance 1928-1961 , letters ( 1991 )
- Journal de l'année 1984: écriture et errance , diary ( 1996 )
- La Tentation de l'Orient: lettres autour du monde , travel notes ( 1997 )
- L'oeil d'ombre: correspondance 1944-1981 , letters (1997)
- Bienheureux les lacs ( 1998 )
- Partir à vingt ans , foreword by Jean Starobinsky ( 1999 )
- The Gospel of Jude / Évangile selon Judas , short story ( 2001 )
- Le Voyage en Savoie: du renard à l'eubage ( 2001 )
- À-Dieu-vat! , entretiens avec Jérôme Meizoz ( 2003 )
- Se reconnaître poète ?: correspondance 1935-1953 , letters ( 2007 )
- La Pipe qui prie et fume ( 2008 )
- Autour de liberté à l'aube. Correspondance 1967-1972 , Letters ( 2010 )
- Journal Intime d'un Pays ( 2011 )
Consolidated Editions
- Poésie de Maurice Chappaz. 1-3. Vevey: Galland, 1980-1982
Recognition
He has received several awards in Switzerland and France, including the Valais canton award for the totality created ( 1985 ) and the Swiss Schiller Prize ( 1997 ). Commander of the Order of Arts and Literature ( 2001 ).
Literature
- Paccolat J.-P. Maurice Chappaz. Friborg: Editions universitaires, 1982
- Darbellay J. Maurice Chappaz à la trace. Genève: Zoé, 1986
- Carraud Cr. Maurice Chappaz. Paris: Seghers, 2005 (coll. "Poètes d'aujourd'hui")
- Jaccottet ph. Pour Maurice Chappaz. Saint-Clément-de-Rivière: Fata Morgana, 2006
Links
- Encyclopedic article (German)
- On the Culturactif website (Fr.)
- On the poetry of Maurice Chappaz (fr.)
- Video