Catherine Colomb

Marie-Louise Colomb (August 18, 1892 – November 3, 1965), best known by her pseudonym Catherine Colomb, was a Swiss writer, considered one of the most important 20th-century novelists in French-speaking Switzerland.

Early life and education Marie-Louise Colomb was born in 1892 in Saint-Prex, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. Her mother died in childbirth when she was 5 years old, and she was raised by her maternal grandmother. After spending her childhood in Begnins, she left to study at the University of Lausanne, where she graduated in 1916 with a degree in classical studies. She began work on a doctorate, with a thesis on Béat Louis de Muralt, but she abandoned it before the defense.

Career Colomb traveled at length to Germany, England, and Paris, before settling again in Vaud. In 2008, the artists of Saint-Prex founded an organization called Association Catherine Colomb to promote her work and cultural events in the area.

Selected works

Pile ou face, 1934 Châteaux en enfance, 1945; republished 1993 Les Esprits de la terre, 1953; republished 2002 Le Temps des anges, 1962; republished 1993

Posthumous

La Valise, 1993 Les Royaumes combattants, 1993 Catherine Colomb, Œuvres complètes, 3 volumes, 1993 Tout Catherine Colomb, 2019