Agota Kristof (1935-) | Hongrie |
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Agota Kristof est née en 1935 en Hongrie d'où elle s'est
enfuie en 1956 pour venir habiter en Suisse. Elle commence par travailler dans
une usine où >>>
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Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) | France |
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The famous French conservative theater author, born in Bordeau and one time assistant of Louis Jouvet, came to Pully (a poshy suburb of Lausanne) for >>>
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Bernard Clavel (1923-) | France |
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This French writer and winner of the 1968 Goncourt prize for Les Fruits de l'Hiver (The fruit of winter) is one of the most prolific authors of his ge >>>
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Jorge Luis Borgès (1899-1986) | Argentina |
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The great Argentinian writer lived for decades in Geneva. His family first found refuge during WWI, and young Borges learned French and German at the >>>
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Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) | France |
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Brilliant lawyer at the Court of Cassation and highly skilled gastronome known
for his "Physiology of Taste", Brillat Savarin was forced t >>>
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Lord Byron (1788-1824) | UK |
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This English poet was the main precursor to the wave of Romanticism in the nineteenth century. Byron loved the Geneva Riviera and set several of his s >>>
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Elias Canetti (1905-1994) | Bulgaria |
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The jewish-spanish writer studied in Zurich for 5 years. In 1981 he received the Litterature Nobel Prize. >>>
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Albert Cohen (1895-1981) | Greece |
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The greek born, Marseilles-raised jewish writer came to Geneva as a student and then spent most of his life there, working for the UN and writing his >>>
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Mathurin Cordier (1479-1564) | France |
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After his studies at Paris University,
he began an ecclesiastic career but at the age of thirty-five, with a highly
developed taste for literature >>>
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Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552-1630) | France |
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Man of letters and man of war, Agrippa
d’Aubigné was born in the area surrounding Pons (Saintonge) in 1552. At first, companion of
Henry IV, he r >>>
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San Antonio (1921-2000) | France |
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L'auteur des San-Antonio a vécu dans le canton de Fribourg dès 1974. Frédéric Dard est né à Bourgoin-Jallieu, dans l'Isère, en 1921. Ses parents trava >>>
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Théodore de Bèze (1519-1605) | France |
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Descended from the Burgundian nobility,
Théodore de Bèze was born in Vezelay in 1519.
His humanist education turned him into a remarkable poet and >>>
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Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) | Armenia |
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Daughter of an Armenian, Alexandre Trophimovsky, and of the Jewish wife, of German origin, of a Russian general,
Isabelle Eberhardt was born in Gen >>>
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Scott Fitzgerlad (1896-1940) | USA |
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but
many things end." One trip abroad
Already a famous author by the age of 24, >>>
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | UK |
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Writer and historian of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon was
born in England on April 27, 1737 and spent his youth on the banks of Lake
Geneva >>>
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Graham Greene (1904-1991) | UK |
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The British writer and journalist traveled at length for his employer, the Foreign Office, for whom he covered diverse current affairs, particularly d >>>
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Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968) | Italia |
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Creatore del personaggio di DON CAMILLO, Guareschi scelse l'alto livello qualitativo della vita del Tessin, dove poteva continuare a parlare italiano, >>>
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | USA |
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Ernest Hemingway, le célèbre romancier américain, est né le 21 Juillet 1899 à Chicago. Il
vit une première fois quelques temps en Suisse en 1922
l >>>
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Herman Hesse (1877-1962) | Germania |
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Lo scrittore tedesco amava tanto la regione di lingua italiana in cui viveva da utilizzarla numerose volte come ambientazione dei suoi romanzi e novel >>>
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Christian Jaqc (1947-) | France |
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Christian Jacq, écrivain égyptologue français, est né à Paris en
1947. Dès son plus jeune
âge il tombe amoureux de l'Egypte ancienne et de sa cultur >>>
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James Joyce (1882-1941) | Irlanda |
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Il grande scrittore si trasferì in Svizzera da Parigi per via della guerra e morì a Zurigo. >>>
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Hermann Kesten (1900-1996) | Germania |
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Lo scrittore fuggì dalla Germania nazista nel 1933 e non vi tornò più. Trovò rifugio sicuro in Svizzera nella città di Basilea, al confine tra Germani >>>
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Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) | UK |
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Writer, mountaineer and father of Virginia Woolf, Sir Leslie Stephen was born into a wealthy, upper class English family. He is known for his many wri >>>
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Thomas Mann (1875-1955) | Germany |
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The German author and Nobel Prize winner lived in Switzerland for 8 years. Thomas Mann, born in 1875, came from old Lübeck patrician stock. After >>>
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Jacques Martin (1920-) | France |
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The comic artist who created Alix has lived in Switzerland since 1984.
Jacques Martin was born in September, 1920, in Strasbourg. He began his tra >>>
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Paul Morand (1888-1976) | Francia |
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Lo scrittore francese amava tanto Vevey da trascorrervi vent'anni della sua vita. Apprezzava soprattutto la possibilità di poter andare ovunque a pied >>>
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) | Russia |
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The Russian writer was born in 1899 to a wealthy family from St Petersburg.
By the age of seven, he could speak French and English fluently. His h >>>
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Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) | USA |
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The American queen of the murder mystery lived in Locarno in the canton of Ticino. Born Mary Patricia Plangman in 1921, in Fort Worth, Texas, she was >>>
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Hugo pratt (1927-1995) | Italy |
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Hugo Pratt, illustrator, painter of water color and creator of Corto Maltese,
lived on the Geneva Riviera for 11 years. Born in Rimini in 1927, he >>>
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) | Germany |
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One of the most influential writers of German expression in the 20th century, he came in Switzerland in 1919 and soon received Swiss citizenship. He's >>>
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Mary Shelley (1797-1851) | Angleterre |
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L'auteur de Frankenstein a trouvé l'inspiration sur les rives du lac Léman. Mary Shelley est née le 30 août 1797, d'un père philosophe et écrivain, Wi >>>
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Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) | Polonia |
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Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1905, visse a Vevey presso l'Hotel du Lac dal 1914 alla morte. >>>
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Georges Simenon (1903-1989) | Belgique |
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Georges Simenon, le père du célèbre commissaire Maigret, est né le vendredi 13 février 1903 à
Liège. Dès son plus jeune âge Simenon manifeste un >>>
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Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846) | Germany |
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Son of painter Wolfgang Adam Toepffer
(1766-1847), of German origin, who had made of Geneva his second homeland,
Rodolph Toepffer was unable to em >>>
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Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) | Romania |
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The Dada writer spent years in Zurich, helping to create this artistic movement. Later he joined the french Résistance with his surrealist friends in >>>
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) | UK |
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English poet William Wordsworth was still a student at Cambridge
when he developed a passion for the Alps while reading texts by Rousseau. In >>>
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