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Laurence Boissier

Laurence Boissier

Swiss writer and artist (1965–2022)

Laurence Boissier (12 August 1965 – 7 January 2022) was a Swiss writer, artist, and architect.[1]

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Biography

Boissier studied architectural engineering at the École des arts décoratifs de Genève. For two years, she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, visiting prisons in Serbia and South Africa. For ten years, she worked for the Canton of Geneva as an engineer in building physics.[2]

She then studied at the Geneva University of Art and Design and earned an art degree in 2009.[3] She wrote several collections of texts and a novel on non-conformity.[4][5] In 2011, she joined Bern ist überall [fr], a group of German- and French-language Swiss writers.[2] In 2017, she received a Swiss Literature Award.[6]

Boissier died on 7 January 2022, at the age of 56.[7]

Publications

  • Projet de salon pour Madame B. (2010)
  • Noces (2010)
  • Cahier des charges (2011)
  • Inventaire des lieux (2015)
  • Le maillot de bain orange (2016)
  • Inventaire des lieux (2017)
  • Rentrée des classes [fr] (2017)
  • Safari (2019)
  • Histoire d'un soulèvement (2020)

Distinctions

  • New author grant from the Canton of Geneva (2009)[8]
  • Prix Studer/Ganz [fr] (2009)[9]
  • Swiss Literature Award (2017)[10]
  • Prix des lecteurs de la Ville de Lausanne [fr] (2018)
  • Prix Pittard de l'Andelyn [fr] (2018)

References

  1. [1]
    Pitteloud, Anne (10 January 2022). "Laurence Boissier s'est tue". Le Courrier (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. [2]
    Raboud, Thierry (17 February 2017). "L'heureuse imposture". Le Courrier (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Laurence Boissier". Haute École d'art et de design Genève (in French).
  4. [4]
    Pitteloud, Anne (26 February 2012). "Délicieux décalages". Le Courrier (in French).
  5. [5]
    Audétat, Michel (5 January 2012). "Que se passe-t-il dans les écoles d'art ?". Le Matin (in French).
  6. [6]
    "Laurence Boissier". Prix suisses de littérature 2017 (in French). Archived from the original on 15 December 2018.
  7. [7]
    Koutchoumoff Arman, Lisbeth (11 January 2022). "Laurence Boissier, l'élégance jusqu'au bout". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  8. [8]
    "Bourse d'aide à l'écriture pour nouvel-le auteur-e" (PDF). Ville de Genève (in French).
  9. [9]
    "2009". Fondation Studer/Ganz (in French).
  10. [10]
    "Laurence Boissier Inventaire des lieux". art&fiction (in French). Archived from the original on 13 November 2016.
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