Jean-Pierre Monnier

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Jean-Pierre Monnier was born with Saint-Imier (the Bernese Jura) on December 20th, 1921, deceased on November 29th, 1997 with Epautheyres (Vaud), the writer Jean-Pierre Monnier studied with Porrentruy, Neuchâtel and Bern. He taught with the gymnasium of Neuchâtel during forty years. Jean-Pierre Monnier started his literary career after his meeting, in 1949, with Pierre de Lescure, founder of the Editions of Midnight under the occupation. With young French and foreign writers, it takes part in the creation of the Roman review.

It publishes its first three books as of 1953 with the Plon Editions, with Paris. Jean-Pierre Monnier will publish in Suisse as of 1965. Four of its books were translated into German. Jean-Pierre Monnier tested himself with various kinds of writing: the Romance with in particular “the difficult Love”, “the Clearness of the night”, the “Algae of the bottom” or “the Promised land”, the Test with “the Old ungrateful one of the novel” and “To write in French-speaking Switzerland enters the sky and the night”. Its account, “Lightening”, was adapted to the cinema by Marcel Schüpbach. The writer still delivered a kind of autobiography literary, “For memory”.

Modest and discrete man, it cannot however be considered, in spite of his attachment in his native Jura, like a regionalistic author. Writer of the emotion, the feeling, it wanted to express in an austere language “something of the man while seeking to know it in his loneliness, his fears, of which that of death, and yet its desire of the other”.

He married Monique Laederach, writer, from which he separated in 1973 then remarié himself in Francoise Quillet in 1975. They had a son, Jean, in 1981.

He was member of the Jurassic Institute and the European Community of the writers. He lived in Colombier (Neuchâtel) and Epautheyres (Vaud).

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