Jeanlouis Cornuz

Jeanlouis Cornuz (February 17, 1922 – October 14, 2007) was a Swiss writer.

Biography[edit]

Jeanlouis Cornuz was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied literature at the University of Lausanne and at the University of Zürich. In 1946, at age 24, he worked as an interpreter during the Nuremberg international trials of Nazi German officials involved in the Holocaust. He then taught literature in Switzerland at state gymnasiums (Gymnase de la Cité in Lausanne and Gymnase de Chamblandes in Pully), and also worked as a teacher in the United States of America. A columnist and journalist, he contributed to various newspapers and magazines in Switzerland. This sharp chess player was a benevolent editor-in-chief for the monthly l'Essor magazine from 1995 to 1998. He also was a delegate at the Canton de Vaud parliament for the left wing party POP (popular worker party). Jeanlouis Cornuz published various essays about Jules Michelet, André Dhôtel, Gottfried Keller and an acclaimed biography of Victor Hugo. He also contributed drama plays for the radio and stage and authored several novels. A Germanist, he translated Ernst Wiechert, Walter Diggelmann, Urs Schwarz, Wolfgang Leonhard and Gottfried Keller from German into French.

Novels[edit]

• La vieille femme, Ed. du Viaduc, 1954 (Roman) OCLC 84132906
• Le réfractaire, Rencontre, 1964 (Roman) OCLC 49486851
• Parce que c'était toi, La Baconnière, 1966. (Roman) OCLC 156912362
• Les USA à l'heure du LSD, La Baconnière, 1968. OCLC 7563584
• Reconnaissance d'Edmond Gilliard, L'Age d'homme, 1975
• Jean-Claude Stehli, Centre d'art Les Fontaines, 1978
• La Grande année 1968; ill. Thierry Rollier, Ed. de la Thièle, 1979
• Le Professeur, Favre, 1981. (Roman)
• Portraits sans réserve, Plaisir de lire, 1983
• Olsommer; en collab. avec Fabienne Luisier, Centre d'art Les Fontaines, 1998
• Les désastres de la guerre, L'Age d'homme, 1994. (Roman)
• Les caprices : Les désastres de la guerre II, L'Age d'homme, 2000
• Le complexe de Laïos : Les désastres de la guerre III, L'Age d'homme, 2003

Awards[edit]

• 1981 Vaud canton writers award

Bibliography[edit]

• Roger Francillon, Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande, vol 3, p. 328. OCLC 36411600
• Alain Nicollier, Henri-Charles Dahlem, Dictionnaire des écrivains suisses d'expression française, vol 1, pp. 282. OCLC 32131872

External links[edit]

• Jeanlouis Cornuz sur Culturactif
• Jeanlouis Cornuz à la BCUL