Pierrette Micheloud (6 December 1915 – 14 November 2007) was a Swiss writer and painter.

Life

She was born in

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and studied at

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and

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. She next spent some time in England perfecting her English, going on to study French literature and German at the

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and theology at the

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. She lived in Paris from 1950, where she devoted herself primarily to writing poetry. She also contributed to the Swiss periodicals '' La Liberté'', ''

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'' and ''Treize Etoiles'' and ''

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'' of Paris. During the 1970s, she was editor of the Paris literary magazine ''La voix des poètes''. Micheloud also wrote a column on poetry for the weekly ''Construire''. During her time in Paris, there were more than ten major exhibits of her paintings. Micheloud died in

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at the age of 91. A foundation was created in her name to preserve and promote her work; it awards an annual prize for poetry in French.

Awards

In 1964, with Edith Mora, she founded the ; the jury for this award consists entirely of women. She received the: * Prix Edgar Poe awarded by the Maison de poésie of Paris in 1972 * prize awarded by the canton of

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in 2002

Selected works

Source: * ''Valais de coeur'', poetry (1964), received the

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* ''Douce-amer'', poetry (1980), received the Prix Schiller * ''Les mots, la pierre'', poetry (1984), received the

Prix Guillaume Apollinaire The prix Guillaume Apollinaire is a French poetry prize first awarded in 1941. It was named in honour of French writer Guillaume Apollinaire. It annually recognizes a collection of poems for its originality and modernity. Members of the jury The ...

* ''L'ombre ardente'', autobiography (1995) * ''Poésie'' (2000), received the Grand Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac from the Société des gens de Lettres de France * ''Du fuseau fileur de lin'', poetry (2004) * ''Nostalgie de l'innocence'', autobiography (2006)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Micheloud, Pierrette 1915 births 2007 deaths Swiss poets in French Swiss women writers 20th-century Swiss painters University of Zurich alumni University of Lausanne alumni Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners 20th-century Swiss women painters