S. Corinna Bille
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Stéphanie Corinna Bille (29 August 1912 – 24 October 1979) was a French-speaking writer from Switzerland. Bille was born in Lausanne, the daughter of Swiss painter Edmond Bille, and grew up in
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. She was a script editor on the 1933
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-directed film ''Rapt,'' which was shot on location in Switzerland. During the production she met the film's star Geymond Vital, after which she moved to Paris to be with Vital and they got married. The marriage was later annulled. In 1937, she returned to Switzerland, where she fell gravely ill. After her recovery, Bille married the writer Maurice Chappaz. In 1974, she received the for her work. She won the 1975
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for ''La Demoiselle sauvage''. Several short stories and novels by Bille were translated into German and Italian and a few short stories were translated into English. In 2006, a collection of English translations of short stories and longer prose was published as ''The Transparent Girl and Other Stories''. Although Bille travelled extensively, she always returned home to
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. She died in Sierre. Her estate is archived in the
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in Bern.


Selected works

Source: * ''Printemps'' (Spring), poetry (1939) * ''Théoda'', novel (1944) * ''Le grand tourment'' (The great anguish), novellas (1951) * ''Le sabot de Vénus'' (Venus' wooden shoes), novel (1952) * ''Florilège alpestre'' (Alpine album), essay (1953) * ''L'enfant aveugle'' (The blind child), stories (1955) * ''Jeunesse d'un peintre'' (Youth of a painter) (1962), by Edmond Bille, as editor * ''Le pays secret'' (The secret country), poetry (1963) * ''Le mystère du monstre'' (Mystery of the monster), children's stories (1966)


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Publications by and about S. Corinna Bille
in the catalogue Helveticat of the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bille, S. Corinna 1912 births 1979 deaths ETH Zurich alumni Swiss writers in French Swiss women poets Writers from Lausanne Swiss women novelists 20th-century Swiss poets 20th-century Swiss novelists 20th-century Swiss women writers Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle recipients