Laurence Boissier (12 August 1965 – 7 January 2022) was a Swiss writer, artist, and architect.

Biography

Boissier studied architectural engineering at the École des arts décoratifs de Genève. For two years, she worked for the

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, visiting prisons in Serbia and South Africa. For ten years, she worked for the

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as an engineer in building physics. She then studied at the Geneva University of Art and Design and earned an art degree in 2009. She wrote several collections of texts and a novel on non-conformity. In 2011, she joined ', a group of German- and French-language Swiss writers. In 2017, she received a Swiss Literature Award. Boissier died on 7 January 2022, at the age of 56.

Publications

*''Projet de salon pour Madame B.'' (2010) *''Noces'' (2010) *''Cahier des charges'' (2011) *''Inventaire des lieux'' (2015) *''Le maillot de bain orange'' (2016) *''Inventaire des lieux'' (2017) *' (2017) *''Safari'' (2019) *''Histoire d'un soulèvement'' (2020)

Distinctions

*New author grant from the Canton of Geneva (2009) * (2009) *Swiss Literature Award (2017) * (2018) * (2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boissier, Laurence 1965 births 2022 deaths Swiss writers in French 20th-century Swiss women writers 21st-century Swiss women writers Swiss women novelists Writers from Geneva Architects from Geneva Geneva University of Art and Design alumni