| Anne Cuneo | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Anne Cuneo 6 September 1936 Paris, France |
| Died | 11 February 2015(2015-02-11) (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Author, Director, Screenwriter |
Anne Cuneo (6 September 1936 – 11 February 2015) was a Swiss journalist, novelist, theatre and film director and screenwriter.
She was born in Paris of Italian parents, but studied in Lausanne. Her first novel came in 1967 and was called Gravé au diamant. In 1979 she received the lesser prize of the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung and by 1987 she worked for Télévision Suisse Romande.
Her career spanned four decades and fifteen novels, as well as dozens of plays and scripts for theatre, TV and radio. She died in 2015.
in 1995 Cuneo's novel Le trajet d’une rivière was awarded the prestigious Prix des Libraires, which celebrates the best novel published in the Francophone world each year.
Bibliography
- 1967: Gravé au diamant, re-edition in 1968
- 1969: Mortelle maladie
- 1970: La Vermine
- 1972: Poussière du réveil,
- 1975: Le Piano du pauvre,
- La vie de l'accordéoniste Denise Letourneur
- 1976: La Machine Fantaisie,
- Une enquête sur le cinéma suisse
- 1978: Passage des Panoramas,
- 1979: Une cuillerée de bleu
- Anne parle de sa maladie, un cancer du sein
- 1980: Les Portes du jour, Portrait de l'auteur en femme ordinaire vol1,
- 1982: Les Portes du jour, Portrait de l'auteur en femme ordinaire vol2,
- 1984: Hôtel Vénus
- 1985: Le Monde des forains
- 1987: Benno Besson et Hamlet,
- 1989: Station Victoria
- 1990: Prague aux doigts de feu
- 1993: Trajet d'une rivière. 2015: Tregian's Ground (trans. Louise Rogers Lalaurie), And Other Stories, UK.
- 1994: La flûte et les ratonneurs,
- 1995: Au bas de mon rêve,
- 1996: Objets de splendeur,
- Traite de la « dame Brune de Shakespeare»,
- 1998: Âme de bronze
- Livre traitant du viol
- 1999: D'or et d'oublis
- Livre traitant des avoir juifs en Suisse
- 2000: Le sourire de Lisa
- Livre traitant de l'inceste
- 2002: Le maître de Garamond,
- 2004: Hôtel des cœurs brisés,
- ou le doping dans le cyclisme
- 2005: Rencontres avec hamlet,
- 2006: Les corbeaux sur nos plaines,
- 2006: Lacunes de la mémoire,
- 2007: Zaïda,
- 2009: Conversation chez les Blancs, Anne-Marie Blanc comédienne
- 2011: Un monde de mots, John Florio traducteur, lexicographe, pédagogue, homme de lettres
- 2013: La Tempête des heures
Filmography
- 1982: Cinéjournal au féminin
- 1983: Signes de terre, signes de chair
- 1986: Basta
- 1992: Durchdringende Welten, le peintre Cenak Prajak
- 1996: Die letzte Karte, Friedrich Glaser
- 1996: Francis Tregian, Gentleman et Musicien
- 1998: D'or et d'oubli (script)
- 2001: La Petite Gilberte, Anne-Marie Blanc comédienne
- 2002: Ettore Cella, ein Künstlerleben
- 2003: Ferdi 'national' Kübler
- 2006: Opération Shakespeare à la Vallée de Joux
Awards
- 1969: L'Anti-Prix de la Radio Suisse Romande
- 1979: Schiller Award for her oeuvre
- 1981: Prix culturel du Canton Zurich
- 1990: Bibliomedia et Prix Alpes-Jura, for Station Victoria
- 1994: Prix des Auditeurs de la Radio suisse romande
- 1994: Prix de la Fondation vaudoise pour la Promotion artistique
- 1995: Prix des Libraires et Prix litteraire "Madame Europe" for Le Trajet d'une rivière
- 2008 Anne Cuneo was awarded the title "Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française"
- 2013 she was named "Commandeur de l’ordre National du Mérite".
References
- Swiss films Archived 7 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- "L'écrivaine vaudoise Anne Cuneo s'est éteinte à l'âge de 78 ans" (in French). rts.ch. 12 February 2015.
External links
- Publications by and about Anne Cuneo in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
- (in French) Biography
- (in French)
- (in French)
- 1936 births
- 2015 deaths
- French people of Italian descent
- 20th-century French novelists
- 21st-century French novelists
- French women screenwriters
- French screenwriters
- French journalists
- French film directors
- Journalists from Paris
- Swiss people of Italian descent
- Swiss women journalists
- Swiss women novelists
- Swiss screenwriters
- French women film directors
- Swiss women film directors
- French women novelists
- 20th-century Swiss novelists
- 21st-century Swiss novelists
- 21st-century Swiss women writers
- Prix des libraires winners
- 21st-century French women writers
- 21st-century Swiss journalists
- 20th-century Swiss journalists
- 20th-century French women writers