Maurice Zermatten is a writer Suisse born the October 22nd 1910 with Saint Martin's day (Valais), deceased the February 11th 2001 with Sion.

Biography

Resulting from a country family, wire of teacher, Maurice Zermatten is the junior by a family of nine children. He passes his childhood in his village where the Moyen-âge is hardly declining (he evokes this time in the saps of childhood account published in 1968). He studies at the Teacher training school, then with the Université of Freiburg. He teaches with the College of Sion, occupation which he follows until the retirement. As from 1952, it is also part-time lecturer to the federal Polytechnic school of Zurich. It publishes its Romance first : the useless Heart in 1936.

It achieves a military career leading it to the rank of Colonel. Maurice Zermatten also chaired the Swiss Société of the writers at the end of the years 1960. In 1969, one reproaches him for having collaborated in the translation of the work Civil defense , for having distributed by the Federal council to all the households Swiss and aiming at reinforcing the civic spirit of the population.

It devotes to many literary kinds like the Romance , the Récit, the Conte, the Nouvelle, the Théâtre, the Essai or the Biographie.

Novelist-born, Maurice Zermatten describes the novel like " a complete kind where the author creates characters, a history, an environment. It is a fiction which corresponds to a reality as long as one draws his imagination in the vie."

Distinctions

• Officer about the French national merit of arts and the letters
• Price Schiller, 1938 and 1956
• Swiss Grand Prix of the Catholic theater 1954
• Grand Prix of Literature for the whole of its work 1959
• 1959
• Price of the French Academy 1960
• Price of cultural Alliance Frenchwoman 1968
• Price of the Radiation of the French language 1974
• Price the Alps the Jura 1974.
Middle-class
• of honor of the town of Sion in 1976

Works

Maurice Zermatten published approximately 120 works whose half of Romance S. Its most significant works is:

Romans

• the useless Heart , 1936

• the difficult , 1936
• the Anger of God , 1940
• the Blood of dead the , 1942
• Christine, Romance Way , 1944
• the Spirit of the Storms , 1946
• the Garden of the Olive-trees , 1951
• the Mountain without stars , 1956
• Ivy and the Fig tree , 1957
• the Fountain of Aréthuse , 1958
• the gold Shield, 1961
• the Cancer of lonelinesses , 1964
• Country without way , 1966
• Saps of childhood , 1968
• a book where each one can find a share of its own childhood!
• a Cassock with the nettles , 1971
• the white Door: novel , 1973
• a Love in Grenchen-North , 1978
• the Man with the grasses , 1980
• O you whom I did not love enough , 1990

All its novels carry the seal of autobiographical memories .

Théâtre

• pure hands

• Isabelle de Chevron
• the Hair of Absalon
• the black Rose of Marignan
• the She-wolf
• North wind in cross
• Adelaide de Chermignon
• the Dove and the Vultures

Contes and Nouvelles

• Tales of the Top-Countries of the Rhone

• black Bread
• Tales with my children
• the Summer of the Saint Martin's day

Literary criticisms

It devoted works on Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gonzague de Reynold

External bond

• '' Vidéo: '' Maurice Zermatten in 1961, receives us at his place, a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision

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