Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

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Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz bigraphy, stories - Swiss writer

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz : biography

September 24, 1878 – May 23, 1947

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (September 24, 1878 – May 23, 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.

He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and was educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby Aubonne, and then in Weimar, Germany. In 1903, he left for Paris and remained there until World War I, with frequent trips home to Switzerland. In 1903, he published Le petit village, a collection of poems.

In 1914, he returned to Switzerland, where he lived a reclusive life devoted to his writing.

He wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat.

He died in Pully, near Lausanne in 1947. His likeness and an artistic impression of his works appear on the 200 Swiss franc note (in current use). The Foundation C.F. Ramuz in Pully awards the Grand Prix C. F. Ramuz.

Awards

  • 1927 Prix Gottfried Keller

Films

Category:1878 births Category:1947 deaths Category:People from Lausanne Category:Swiss writers

Works

  • Le petit village (1903)
  • Aline (1905)
  • Jean-Luc persécuté (1909)
  • Aimé Pache, peintre vaudois (1911)
  • Vie de Samuel Belet (1913)
  • Raison d’être (1914)
  • Le règne de l’esprit malin (1917)
  • La guérison des malades (1917)
  • Les signes parmi nous (1919)
  • Salutation paysanne (1919)
  • Terre du ciel (1921)
  • Présence de la mort (1922)
  • La séparation des races (1922)
  • Passage du poète (1923)
  • L’amour du monde (1925)
  • La grande peur dans la montagne (1926)
  • La beauté sur la terre (1927)
  • Adam et Eve (1932)
  • Derborence (1934)
  • Questions (1935)
  • Le garçon savoyard (1936)
  • Taille de l’homme (1937)
  • Besoin de grandeur (1937)
  • Si le soleil ne revenait pas… (1937)
  • Paris, notes d’un vaudois (1938)
  • Découverte du monde (1939)
  • La guerre aux papiers (1942)
  • René Auberjonois (1943)
  • Nouvelles (1944)

The soldier’s march ( NA)