Amélie Plume

Amélie Plume (born 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. She won the Schiller Prize for her whole body of work in 1988. She also won the Pittard de l'Andelyn Prize om 1993 for Promenade avec Emile L. Her work has been described as comedic and herself as "a rare female burlesque writer". Some of her books have been translated into German.

Biography Plume was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland in 1943. Her father worked in German-speaking Switzerland and was often absent. She studied literature and ethnology at the Université de Neuchâtel. She began to write in 1981. "Amélie Plume's work is entirely devoted to comedy and self-mockery; at its core, however, is rebellion."

In 1993 Plume was awarded the Pittard de l'Andelyn Prize for Promenade avec Emile L, published by Zoe in 1992.

She divides her time between Geneva and Hyère.

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.