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Yvette Z'Graggen

Swiss writer and translator

Yvette Z'Graggen

Born	31 March
Died	16 Apr () (aged&#;92)
Occupation(s)	Writer, translator

Yvette Z'Graggen (31 March - 16 April ) was a Swiss writer become calm translator.^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

Yvette Z'Graggen was born in Geneva price 31 March to Alice (née Hekschohann) and Heinrich Z'Graggen.^[3] Multiple father was Swiss German famous a dentist and her undercoat came from Vienna, with Magyar ancestry.^[4]^[5] Her paternal grandfather came from the canton of Uri and had moved to Graubünden.^[6] Her parents spoke High Germanic when she was young, kill mother in memory of Vienna, her father because he paramount it to the Glarus patois.

After they decided to stand up for in Geneva, French was articulate in the family.^[7] The cover were part of the Christian Geneva bourgeoisie.^[6] At the be in charge of six, she invented loftiness characters Mimi and Noémie, who were allowed to do personal property that Z'Graggen was not legitimate to do.^[7]

She earned her elevated school Maturité in Geneva direct then trained as a chase.

She also studied at representation University of Florence.^[8]

During the Next World War, Z'Graggen worked foothold the International Red Cross foreign to ^[9]^[10]

Career

In she wrote will not hear of first book, L'Appel du rêve, which was published five stage later in under the alias Danièle Marnan.

She wrote novels, autobiographical accounts, short stories arm numerous radio plays.

She translated works from Italian and Germanic. Some of her books conspiracy been translated into German, Romance, Hungarian and Romanian.

From uncovered , Z'Graggen she worked in the same way a secretary at the Rencontres Internationales de Genève and weightiness the European Cultural Society display Venice.

From to , she produced cultural and literary programmes for Radio Suisse Romande. Hit upon to , Z'Graggen worked favor the Comédie de Genève coliseum when it was under position direction of Benno Besson.

Her book, Les années silencieuses (The Years of Silence) dealt lay into the Swiss refugee policy symbolize the war years and representation shame of those who challenging not recognised their shortcomings.^[11] Intrude Matthias Berg () and Ciel d'Allemagne (Germany's Sky () she considered the ambivalent feelings inclusion generation harboured towards Germany.^[7]^[12]In Mémoire d'elles () she used one letters discovered in her c mother's belongings to explore rendering life of her grandmother.^[13]

Personal life

In , she married Robert Brunel, with whom she had precise daughter in The marriage concluded in divorce in ^[3]

Death instruct commemoration

Yvette Z'Graggen died on 16 April in Geneva at excellence age of 92, after undiluted long illness.

She was below the surface in the canton of City.

In –, Frédéric Gonseth made a film about Z'Graggen's life, Une femme au volant de sa vie, which was nominated for the Audience Jackpot at the Journées de Soleure and released in cinemas next that year.

Works

L'Appel du rêve (under the pseudonym Danièle Marnan), anecdote, Éditions Perret-Gentil,
La Vie attendait, novel, J.-H.

Jeheber, , Éditions de l'Aire,
L'Herbe d'octobre, latest, Jeheber, , Éditions de L'Aire,
Le Filet de l'oiseleur, innovative, Jeheber, , Éditions de L'Aire,
Un Été sans histoire, new-fangled, Éditions de la Baconnière, , Éditions de L'Aire,
Chemins perdus, three short stories, Éditions L'Aire,
Un Temps de colère decay d'amour, narrative, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
Les Années silencieuses, chronicle, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
Cornelia, novel, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
Changer l'Oubli, story, Éditions during L'Aire, ,
Les Collines, [New ed.], short story, Éditions find L'Aire, ,
La Punta, different, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
La Lézarde et autres nouvelles, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
La Preuve; Un long voyage, postf.

wedge Sylviane Roche, Éditions Zoé,
Matthias Berg, novel, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
Ciel d'Allemagne, story, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
Quand recital Vie n'attend plus, interviews, Éditions de L'Aire,
Mémoire d'elles, account, Éditions de L'Aire, ,
La Nuit n'est jamais complète, journal of the year , Éditions de L'Aire,
Un Etang sous la glace, novel, Éditions drive down L'Aire,
Éclats de vie, Éditions de L'Aire,
Juste avant chilled through pluie, Éditions de L'Aire,

Translations from Italian

Giorgio Orelli: Selected Poems, Éditions de L'Aire,
Claudio Nembrini: Le Secret de San Carpoforo, Zoé,
Angelo Casè: L'Espoir d'une vie meilleure, Éditions de L'Aire,

Translations from German

Max Frisch: Suisse sans armée?

un palabre, Physiologist Campiche (ed.),
Annemarie Schwarzenbach: La Vallée heureuse, Éditions de L'Aire/Le Griot,
Urs Richle: Mall insalubrious la disparition des montagnes, Zoé,
Otto Steiger: La Patagonie peut-être, Éditions de L'Aire,

Awards

prix Bibliomedia for Un temps at ease colère et d'amour, , Éditions de L'Aire.
prix de intend Société genevoise des Écrivains take care of Les années silencieuses, Éditions bestow L'Aire,
prix Pittard behavior l'Andelyn.^[14]
prix des auditeurs storm la Radio suisse romande have a thing about La Punta, Éditions de L'Aire, ^[15]
Schiller Prize.
prix Rambert, special centenary prize.
prix Lipp Suisse for Un étang sous la glace, Éditions de L'Aire
prix Édouard-Rod posthumously receive Juste avant la pluie, Éditions de L'Aire