Amélie Plume

Amélie Plume is a Swiss writer born in 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

Studies 

She carried out her study of letters and ethnology at the Université de Neuchâtel.

Travels 

She voyaged to Africa, Israel and New York City 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.

Writings

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

Prizes 
She received the Prix Schiller in 1988 for the totality of her work.

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, Vevey, 2001. p. 140.

References 

Category:1943 births
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century Swiss novelists
Category:University of Neuchâtel alumni
Category:Swiss women novelists
Category:21st-century Swiss novelists
Category:21st-century women writers
Category:People from La Chaux-de-Fonds
Category:20th-century women writers