See also: Métral

Maurice Métral is a Swiss writer born the April 5th 1929 with Grône, in Valais and deceased the January 14th 2001 with its residence, in the village of Grimisuat.

Biography

Wire of a father carpenter-carpenter, Maurice Métral is one of the ten children of the family. After a training of carpenter, Maurice Métral worked of 1949 to 1953 on large the Valaisan Barrages. Married in 1951 in Angela Romelli, it will have five children. In front of the difficulties to nourish its family, he becomes professor of French and literature at the Institute Jew of Bex, up to 1962. In 1960, it also accepts a post of writer to the Feuille of Opinion of Were worth . In 1970, reached in its health, it leaves professional journalism to be devoted to its work of novelist.

For several years the Métral family has been installed with the Combes on the commune of Grimisuat.

Maurice Métral devoted almost the totality of his work to the Valais, his manners, and his inhabitants.

Publications

Distinctions

• Grand Prix of the French Academy for the Clearing with hung the
• Grand Prix of the Novel (Paris) for the Avalanche
• Grand Prix of human Fraternity (Paris) for Impotent the
• Gold medal of the social Merit for the High cemeteries
• Grand Prix Ulrico Hoepli (Zurich) for red Vipers
• Price of the literatures of French language out of France (Paris) for Foreign the
• Large money medal of the town of Paris in 1975
• Knight about arts and of the letters in 1985

Sources

• Swiss Official site
• Press of 1977 to 2001

External bond

• '' Vidéo: '' Maurice Métral in 1967, is expressed on its novel impotent the , a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision

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