Anne-Lise Grobéty

Anne-Lise Grobéty (1 December 1949 – 5 October 2010) was a French-language Swiss journalist and an author of short stories, poetry and radio plays.

Biography Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds on the French-Swiss border, Grobéty studied literature at Neuchâtel University and went on to work as a journalist. She completed her first novel, Pour mourir en février, when she was only 19 but after her second work in 1975 she devoted an extended period to her three daughters. She returned to writing in 1984, with highly acclaimed works such as the novels Zéro positif and Infiniment plus and the short story collections La Fiancée d'hiver and Belle dame qui mord.

Commenting on her work, Grobéty explained: "I don't have a fashionable style. A long time ago I decided to work not on the busy high streets but in the back yards."

Works Anne-Lise Grobéty wrote the following works: 1970: Pour mourir en février, novel, Cahiers de la Renaissance vaudoise 1975: Zéro positif, novel, Vevey, Bertil Galland 1979: Maternances, poems (avec des gravures d'Armande Oswald ), Neuchâtel, Éditions Galerie Ditesheim 1980: Les Ramoneurs, poems, Lausanne, Payot 1984: La Fiancée d'hiver 1986: Contes-Gouttes, La Tour-de-Peilz, Bernard Campiche 1989: Infiniment plus, novel, Yvonand, Bernard Campiche 1990: Jours et contre-jours 1992: Une bouffée de bonheur !, young adults story, Zurich, Oevre suisse de lectures pour la jeunesse 1992: Belle dame qui mord, essays, Yvonand, Bernard Campiche 1994: Non non ma fille : nouvelle, Orbe, Bernard Campiche 1996: Défense d'entrer et autres nouvelles, Geneva, Éditions Zoé 2000: Compost blues, Association suisse des libraires de langue française 2001: Le Temps des Mots à Voix basse, young adults novel, Geneva, La Joie de lire 2003: Amour mode majeur, Orbe, Bernard Campiche 2004: Du mal à une mouche, Geneva, La Joie de lire 2006: La corde de mi, novel, Bernard Campiche 2007: Jusqu'à pareil éclat, Bernard Campiche 2008: L'abat-jour, essay, Editions d'Autre part