Janine Massard

Janine Massard (born November 13, 1939) is a Swiss writer from the Vaud canton. From 2002 to 2009, she was president of the Association Films Plans-Fixes.

She married Maurice Ehinger; he died in 1994. From 1965 to 1969, she was a member of the Swiss Party of Labour, known as Parti ouvrier et populaire (POP) in Vaud.

Massard has written a number of novels, and often writes about working-class people and social misfits Massard was awarded the Schiller Prize in 1986, for La petite monnaie des jours, and received the Vaud Writers' Prize (Prix culturels vaudois) for literature in 2007 for Trois mariages (Three Marriages). In 2019 she published Grand-Mère et la mer.

Massard's essay on rural peasants and servants in the Jura region, Terre noire d'usine (Black Factory Land), has been described as "a major success".

Selected works

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La petite monnaie des jours, novel (partly autobiographical) (1985), received the in 1986 Terre noire d'usine, non-fiction Trois mariages, non-fiction, won the Prix des Ecrivains vaudois Ce qui reste de Katharina, novel, received the Prix de la Bibliothèque pour Tous in 1998 Comme si je n'avais pas traversé l'été, novel, received the in 2002 Un Jardin face à la France, novel (2006) Childéric et Cathy sont dans un bateau, stories (2010) Gens du Lac, novel