| Agota Kristof (1935-) | Hongrie |
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Agota Kristof est nee en 1935 en Hongrie d'ou elle s'est
enfuie en 1956 pour venir habiter en Suisse. Elle commence par travailler dans
une usine ou
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| Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) | France |
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The famous French conservative theater author, born in Bordeau and one time assistant of Louis Jouvet, came to Pully (a poshy suburb of Lausanne) for
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| Bernard Clavel (1923-) | France |
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This French writer and winner of the 1968 Goncourt prize for Les Fruits de l'Hiver (The fruit of winter) is one of the most prolific authors of his ge
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| Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) | Argentina |
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The great Argentinian writer lived for decades in Geneva. His family first found refuge during WWI, and young Borges learned French and German at the
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| Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) | France |
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Brilliant lawyer at the Court of Cassation and highly skilled gastronome known
for his "Physiology of Taste", Brillat Savarin was forced t
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| Lord Byron (1788-1824) | UK |
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This English poet was the main precursor to the wave of Romanticism in the nineteenth century. Byron loved the Geneva Riviera and set several of his s
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| Elias Canetti (1905-1994) | Bulgaria |
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The jewish-spanish writer studied in Zurich for 5 years. In 1981 he received the Litterature Nobel Prize.
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| Albert Cohen (1895-1981) | Greece |
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The greek born, Marseilles-raised jewish writer came to Geneva as a student and then spent most of his life there, working for the UN and writing his
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| Mathurin Cordier (1479-1564) | France |
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After his studies at Paris University,
he began an ecclesiastic career but at the age of thirty-five, with a highly
developed taste for literature
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| Agrippa d'Aubigne (1552-1630) | France |
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Man of letters and man of war, Agrippa
d’Aubigne was born in the area surrounding Pons (Saintonge) in 1552. At first, companion of
Henry IV, he r
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| San Antonio (1921-2000) | France |
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L'auteur des San-Antonio a vecu dans le canton de Fribourg des 1974. Frederic Dard est ne a Bourgoin-Jallieu, dans l'Isere, en 1921. Ses parents trava
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| Theodore de Beze (1519-1605) | France |
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Descended from the Burgundian nobility,
Theodore de Beze was born in Vezelay in 1519.
His humanist education turned him into a remarkable poet and
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| Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) | Armenia |
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Daughter of an Armenian, Alexandre Trophimovsky, and of the Jewish wife, of German origin, of a Russian general,
Isabelle Eberhardt was born in Gen
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| Scott Fitzgerlad (1896-1940) | USA |
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but
many things end." One trip abroad
Already a famous author by the age of 24,
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| Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) | UK |
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Writer and historian of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon was
born in England on April 27, 1737 and spent his youth on the banks of Lake
Geneva
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| Graham Greene (1904-1991) | UK |
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The British writer and journalist traveled at length for his employer, the Foreign Office, for whom he covered diverse current affairs, particularly d
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| Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968) | Италия |
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Создатель образа Дона Камилло, Гуарески избрал местом своего проживания Тичино, кантон, в котором он мог говорить на родном языке и поддерживать тесны
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| Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | USA |
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Ernest Hemingway, le celebre romancier americain, est ne le 21 Juillet 1899 a Chicago. Il
vit une premiere fois quelques temps en Suisse en 1922
l
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| Herman Hesse (1877-1962) | Германия |
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Немецкий писатель так любил этот "итальянский" кантон, что неоднократно избирал его местом действия своих романов
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| Christian Jaqc (1947-) | France |
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Christian Jacq, ecrivain egyptologue francais, est ne a Paris en
1947. Des son plus jeune
age il tombe amoureux de l'Egypte ancienne et de sa cultur
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| James Joyce (1882-1941) | Ирландия |
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Всемирно известный ирландский писатель переехал из Парижа в Швейцарию с началом войны и умер в Цюрихе в 1941 г.
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| Hermann Kesten (1900-1996) | Германия |
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Этот писатель покинул Германию после прихода нацистов в 1933 и никогда больше туда не вернулся. Он нашел дом своей мечты в швейцарском городе Базель,
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| Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) | UK |
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Writer, mountaineer and father of Virginia Woolf, Sir Leslie Stephen was born into a wealthy, upper class English family. He is known for his many wri
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| Thomas Mann (1875-1955) | Germany |
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The German author and Nobel Prize winner lived in Switzerland for 8 years. Thomas Mann, born in 1875, came from old Lübeck patrician stock. After
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| Jacques Martin (1920-) | France |
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The comic artist who created Alix has lived in Switzerland since 1984.
Jacques Martin was born in September, 1920, in Strasbourg. He began his tra
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| Paul Morand (1888-1976) | Франция |
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Этот французский писатель прожил в своем любимом городе Веве 20 лет.
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| Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) | Russia |
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The Russian writer was born in 1899 to a wealthy family from St Petersburg.
By the age of seven, he could speak French and English fluently. His h
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| Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) | USA |
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The American queen of the murder mystery lived in Locarno in the canton of Ticino. Born Mary Patricia Plangman in 1921, in Fort Worth, Texas, she was
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| Hugo pratt (1927-1995) | Italy |
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Hugo Pratt, illustrator, painter of water color and creator of Corto Maltese,
lived on the Geneva Riviera for 11 years. Born in Rimini in 1927, he
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| Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) | Germany |
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One of the most influential writers of German expression in the 20th century, he came in Switzerland in 1919 and soon received Swiss citizenship. He's
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| Mary Shelley (1797-1851) | Angleterre |
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L'auteur de Frankenstein a trouve l'inspiration sur les rives du lac Leman. Mary Shelley est nee le 30 aout 1797, d'un pere philosophe et ecrivain, Wi
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| Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) | Польша |
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Лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1905 года жил в Веве с 1914 г. до самой смерти в гостинице "Отель дю Лак".
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| Georges Simenon (1903-1989) | Belgique |
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Georges Simenon, le pere du celebre commissaire Maigret, est ne le vendredi 13 fevrier 1903 a
Liege. Des son plus jeune age Simenon manifeste un
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| Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846) | Germany |
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Son of painter Wolfgang Adam Toepffer
(1766-1847), of German origin, who had made of Geneva his second homeland,
Rodolph Toepffer was unable to em
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| Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) | Romania |
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The Dada writer spent years in Zurich, helping to create this artistic movement. Later he joined the french Resistance with his surrealist friends in
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| William Wordsworth (1770-1850) | UK |
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English poet William Wordsworth was still a student at Cambridge
when he developed a passion for the Alps while reading texts by Rousseau. In
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