Isabelle Sbrissa (born 1971 in

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) is a Swiss writer and playwright, active in the field of poetry and theater. She is considered a representative of the new generation of Swiss poetry.Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande, Editions Zoé, Genève 2015, pp. 1319 ; 1539 Sbrissa was awarded a Swiss Literature Award in 2022 for her book ''tout tient tout''.

Biography

Sbrissa was born in 1971 in

and currently lives in

Undervelier Undervelier is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Delémont (district), Delémont in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bass ...

. Sbrissa studied at the Institut Littéraire de Bienne, where she earned a Master's degree in contemporary arts practice. After a period of time writing plays for theater, Sbrissa became interested in the vocal dimension of poetry. She experiments with different forms of performing poetry by mingling

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chord ...

and the interference of several languages. Her poetry places importance on

orality Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population. The study of orality is closely allied to the study of oral tradition. The term "ora ...

, revisiting

canonical form In mathematics and computer science, a canonical, normal, or standard form of a mathematical object is a standard way of presenting that object as a mathematical expression. Often, it is one which provides the simplest representation of an obje ...

s and translations in a creative way. She often uses translation in an unknown language, thus exploring the

musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ...

of language and emphasizing it over the function of communication. Her poems mix together different languages, putting forth similarities in their vocal universe, deploying open significations inclining towards a form of singing. In 2020 she was a writer in residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation. Sbrissa is an advocate of micro-publishing, and owns a small printing house, disdill, with which she produces a magazine, ''La Feuille''. She also founded a travelling poetry library called Le Kâdi, with Nathalie Garbely. Sbrissa won the Prix de l'écriture théâtree of the Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA) in 2007. In 2022 Sbrissa won a Swiss Literature Award for her book ''tout tient tout''.

Publications

* ''La Traversée du désert'',(Éditions Bernard Campiche 2009) * ''Le Quatre-Mains'' (Éditions Bernard Campiche, 2009) * ''Travaux d’Italie'' (dans ''Grumeaux'', Violence, n° 3, 2012, Éditions NOUS, 2012) * ''poèmes poèmes1'' (éditions disdill, 2013) * ''R'' (éditions disdill, 2013) * ''Mot a mort'' (KIN issue 3 2013.01)

Online publications

* ''sonnetsTM'', 2015 sur sitaudis.fr * Noëlle Revaz, Escales & Isabelle Sbrissa, ''intimités, amuse-bouche et cycles littérature de partout'' * ''Baccalà alla ligure / Baquelle à la dure,'' ''revue coaltar?''
Langue morte
(audio)
Ceylor
(audio)
Transformation de la vie antérieure d'Oscar Pastor

References

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