title: Amélie Plume
text: Amélie Plume (born 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer.
  
  Biography 
  She carried out her study of letters and ethnology at the Université de Neuchâtel.
  
  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 
  
  1943 births
  Living people
  20th-century Swiss novelists
  University of Neuchâtel alumni
  Swiss women novelists
  21st-century Swiss novelists
  21st-century Swiss women writers
  People from La Chaux-de-Fonds
  20th-century Swiss women writers