Amélie Plume
Encyclopedia
Amélie Plume is a Swiss writer born in 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds
, Switzerland
.
at the Université de Neuchâtel.
, Israel
and New York
where she taught French
and began to write and paint.
Returning to Switzerland, she opened a creative workshop for painting after having learned in Paris. She later devoted herself to writing.
La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss city of the district of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometres from the French border. After Geneva and Lausanne, it is the third largest city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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Studies
She carried out her study of letters and ethnologyEthnology
Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.-Scientific discipline:Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct...
at the Université de Neuchâtel.
Travels
She voyaged to AfricaAfrica
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
where she taught French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and began to write and paint.
Returning to Switzerland, she opened a creative workshop for painting after having learned in Paris. She later devoted herself to writing.
Novels
- : récit, préf. de Catherine Safonoff, Editions Zoé, 1981
- , Editions Zoé, 1986
- , Editions Zoé, 1988
- , Editions Zoé, 1989
- , Editions Zoé, 1992
- , Editions Zoé, 1995
- , postf. de Doris Jakubec, Editions Zoé, 1995
- , Editions Zoé, (1984) 1997
- , Editions Zoé, (1998) 2003
- , Editions Zoé, 2003
- , Editions Zoé, 2006
- , Editions Zoé, 2007
Plays and radiophonic parts
- : pièce de théâtre en cinq tableaux, Editions Trois P'tits Tours, 2000
Critical studies
- La langue et le politique : enquête auprès de quelques écrivains suisses de langue française, éd., conc. et préf. par Patrick Amstutz, postf. de Daniel Maggetti, Editions de L'Aire, VeveyVeveyVevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District...
, 2001. p. 140.