Pierre Cormon

Pierre Cormon, born 1965 in Ambilly, France, is a Swiss writer and has published books in French, Brazilian Portuguese and English, including Swiss Politics for Complete Beginners.

Biography He began his career as a journalist with Le Nouveau Quotidien in 1992, then worked as a delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, Yemen and Rwanda between 1993 and 1996. He drew on this experience in his novel Le Traître, which tells the story of a Swiss living in Cairo who becomes embroiled in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is also the author of a book explaining the Swiss political system to foreigners and of a novel written directly in Brazilian Portuguese, set during Rio Carnival.

Works Le Génie de l’aubergine, Atelier du poisson soluble, 1997, Les Mémoires de Satan, Atelier du poisson soluble, 2005, Le Traître, Slatkine, 2010, Swiss Politics for Complete Beginners, Éditions Slatkine, 2014, La politique Suisse pour les débutants, Éditions Slatkine, 2016, O Grande Dia, Quixote + Do, 2024,