Noëlle Revaz

Noëlle Revaz (born 1968) is a Swiss author, who writes in French. She is best known for her first novel, Rapport aux bêtes (tr: With the Animals), which won several literary awards, including the Schiller Prize, the Prix Marguerite Audoux, the Prix Lettres Frontière, and the Henri Gaspoz Prize, and has been adapted for stage and film.

Life Noëlle Revaz was born in Vernayaz, Valais, in Switzerland, in 1968, and was one of nine siblings. She studied at the Collège de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maurice, and later at the University of Lausanne, where she graduated in 1995 with a degree in Latin, French, and medieval French. She then worked as an educator for several years thereafter, teaching Latin.

Revaz published her first book, Rapport aux bêtes (tr: With the Animals), in 2001, with Gallimard. It won multiple literary awards, including the Schiller Prize, the Marguerite Audoux Prize, the Prix Lettres Frontière, and the Henri Gaspoz Prize. The book is narrated by the protagonist, Paul, a man who controls his family, consisting of his wife and children, through violence and abuse, but finds his authority challenged when a new farmhand, Jorge, pushes back against his control.

Revaz's second book, Efina, won the Dentan Prize in 2010. She has also published a collection of short stories, titled Hermine Blanche (Gallimard).

Revaz also writes for theatre and radio, and has written a radio play commissioned by France Culture, titled Sur les berges, as well as the scripts for the stage adaptations of her own book, Rapport aux bêtes.

Awards and honors +Year Award / honor For Reference 2002 Schiller PrizeRapport aux bêtes