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Maurice Chappaz

December 18, 2023

Maurice Chappaz (21 December 1916, in Lausanne – 15 January 2009, in Martigny) was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards, including his country's most notable award, the Grand Prix Schiller, in 1997.[1]

1983

Biography edit

Born in Lausanne, Maurice Chappaz spent his childhood between Martigny and the abbey of Le Châble, in the Swiss canton of Valais. Born of a family of lawyers and solicitors, nephew of Valaisian secretary of State Maurice Troillet, he studied at Saint-Maurice Abbey High School, then he registered first in Law School at the University of Lausanne, but quickly left it to study littérature in the University of Geneva, which he also left a few months later.

A poet above all, Maurice Chappaz published his first text, Un homme qui vivait couché sur un banc, in December 1939. On that occasion, he was encouraged by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and Gustave Roud.

 
1983

But as of the summer of 1940, World War II put an end to his availability.[2] He thus had to patrol the Swiss borders and published several texts in the review Lettres which were collected in 1944 into Les Grandes Journées de Printemps hailed by Paul Eluard. In 1942, he met S. Corinna Bille, painter Edmond Bille's daughter, whom he married in 1947 and with whom he had three children, Blaise, Achille and Marie-Noëlle. After Corinna's death in 1979, he remarried in 1992, with Michène Caussignac, widow of the travel-writer Lorenzo Pestelli.[3]

After the end of World War II, Maurice Chappaz travelled in Europe. Without any regular occupation and yearning to devote his time to writing, he became an occasional press correspondent while managing his uncle's vineyard in Valais. As he went through serious personal turmoil, he tried new experiences after another and his hand at different jobs while at the same time still more questions cropped up in his mind.

In 1953, the publishing of the Testament du Haut-Rhône crowned a ten-year poetic quest. The book, noted by Charles-Albert Cingria, was a success (its author got awarded the Prix Rambert), yet, the poet was forced to rethink himself and was thrown into a deep despair.[4] To see the world from a new perspective, he decided to join the Grande Dixence Dam building site, where he worked as a surveyor-attendant. This experience reconciled him with poetry[5] and its outcome was the Chant de la Grande Dixence (written as of 1959, and published in 1965). Later to be followed by Portrait des Valaisans en Légende et en Vérité (1965), Office des Morts (written in 1963, and published in 1966) or Tendres Campagnes(written in 1962, and published in 1966).

Maurice Chappaz carried out still other numerous trips around the world : Laponia (1968), Paris (1968), Nepal and Tibet (1970), Mount Athos (1972), Lebanon (1974), Russia (1974 et 1979), China (1981), Quebec and New York (1990).

In the 1970s, the press and the Valaisian population were divided over the publishing of his book Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches (The Mackerels of the White Ridges), which is a pamphlet against the tourist industry that wreaks havoc in the genuine Valais. On that occasion, students from Saint-Maurice wrote Vive Chappaz (long live Chappaz) in huge white capital letters on the cliff overlooking the abbey.[6]

On Corinna Bille's death, in 1979, he left Veyras, where they had moved in in 1957, and he settled in Le Châble abbey, which belonged to his mother's side. Then he published poems alternating between the burlesque and a deathly tone (A rire et à mourir, 1983), he began a 6000 pages Journal, held continuously from 1981 to 1987, and wrote a tale and poetical prose dealing with mourning (Octobre 79 and Le Livre de C., 1986).

Eager to publish his wife Corinna Bille's unpublished writings, left behind at her death, and taking over the translation from Virgil for éditions Gallimard (1987) and Theocritus' Idylls (1992), he drafted a picture of the Alpine ancient civilization in Valais-Tibet (2000).

In 1997, Maurice Chappaz was awarded Grand Prix Schiller, the most prestigious Swiss award, and that same year, he was also awarded, in France, the Poetry Bourse Goncourt for the whole of his work. In Autumn 2001, Évangile selon Judas (Gospel according to Judas), a theological fictitious tale, was published by Gallimard.

In 2002, he wrote a text titled Lettre d'une forêt à l'autre which was published in the art review Trou (issue n°12) ; the head edition (100 issues numbered and signed) contained a facsimile of the manuscript of his thank speech for his title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, delivered in Martigny in Autumn 2001 for the French ambassador.

Chappaz's last published book before his death was La Pipe qui prie et fume, in 2008.[7]

Maurice Chappaz died on 15 January 2009 in Martigny hospital. His estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.

Prizes and awards edit

  • Grand Prix Académie Rhodanienne, 1948
  • Prix Eugène Rambert, 1953
  • Prix de la Ville de Martigny, 1966
  • Prix de l'État du Valais, 1985
  • Grand Prix Schiller, 1997
  • Bourse Goncourt de la poésie, 1997
  • Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Montagne, Passy (France), 2000

Works edit

  • Les Grandes Journées de printemps, Porrentruy, Aux portes de France, 1944, p. 56; rééd. Lausanne, Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise, 1966, p. 71
  • Grand Saint-Bernard, 80 photographies d'Oscar Darbellay, Lausanne, J. Marguerat, 1953, pp. 23, 80
  • Testament du Haut-Rhône, Lausanne, Rencontre, 1953, p. 99; rééd. Lausanne, Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise, 1966, p. 100; rééd. ill. par Gérard de Palézieux, Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, Fata Morgana, 2003
  • Le Valais au gosier de grive, Lausanne, Payot, 1960, p. 77
  • Chant de la Grande Dixence, Lausanne, Payot, 1965, p. 60
  • Un homme qui vivait couché sur un banc, Lausanne, Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise, 1966, p. 110
  • Office des morts, Lausanne, Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise, 1966, p. 79
  • Tendres Campagnes, Lausanne, Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise, 1966, p. 66
  • Verdures de la nuit, Lausanne, Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise, 1966, p. 53
  • Le Match Valais-Judée, [2nd éd.], dessins d'Étienne Delessert, Lausanne, Cahiers de la Renaissance vaudoise, 1969, p. 207
  • La Tentation de l'Orient : lettres autour du monde, Lausanne, Cahiers de la Renaissance vaudoise, 1970, p. 150
  • Lötschental secret : les photographies historiques d'Albert Nyfeler, ill. d'A. Nyfeler, Lausanne, Éd. 24 heures, 1975, p. 155
  • Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches, Vevey, B. Galland, 1976, p. 68
  • Portrait des Valaisans : en légende et en vérité, [5th éd.], Vevey, B. Galland, 1976, p. 187
  • Adieu à Gustave Roud, avec Philippe Jaccottet et Jacques Chessex, Vevey, B. Galland, 1977, p. 85
  • Pages choisies : avec un inédit, préface d'Étiemble, Lausanne-Paris, A. Eibel-Ophrys, 1977, p. 282
  • Poésie, préface de Marcel Raymond, Vevey-Paris, B. Galland-Payot, 1980
  • À rire et à mourir : récits, paraboles et chansons du lointain pays, Vevey, B. Galland, 1983, p. 241
  • Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches, précédé de La Haine du passé, Genève, Éd. Zoé, 1984, p. 99
  • Journal des 4000, ill. de Claire Colmet Daâge, Briançon, Passage, 1985, p. 89
  • Le Livre de C, [nouv. éd. revue], Lausanne, Éditions Empreintes, 1987, p. 151
  • Le Garçon qui croyait au paradis, récit, Lausanne, Éd. 24 heures, 1989, p. 100
  • La Veillée des Vikings, récits, Lausanne, Éd. 24 heures, 1990, p. 134
  • Le Gagne-pain du songe : correspondance 1928–1961, M. Chappaz et Maurice Troillet, Lausanne, Éd. Empreintes, 1991, p. 283
  • Journal de l'année 1984 : écriture et errance, postfaces de Marius Michaud et de Stéphanie Cudré-Mauroux, Lausanne, Éd. Empreintes, 1996, p. 240
  • La Tentation de l'Orient : lettres autour du monde, M. Chappaz et Jean-Marc Lovay, préf. de Nicolas Bouvier, post. de Jérôme Meizoz, Genève, Éd. Zoé, 1997, pp. X–141
  • Bienheureux les lacs, ill. de Gérard Palézieux, Genève, Slatkine, 1998, p. 108
  • Partir à vingt ans, préf. de Jean Starobinski, Genève, La Joie de lire, 1999, p. 216
  • Évangile selon Judas, récit, Paris, Gallimard, 2001, p. 167
  • Le Voyage en Savoie : du renard à l'eubage, photos et réal. graphique Matthieu Gétaz, Genève, La Joie de lire, 2001, p. 94
  • À-Dieu-vat !, entretiens avec Jérôme Meizoz, Sierre, Monographic, 2003, p. 221
  • Se reconnaître poète ? : correspondance 1935–1953, M. Chappaz et Gilbert Rossa, éd. par Françoise Fornerod, Genève, Slatkine, 2007, p. 397
  • La Pipe qui prie et fume, avec 26 reprod. de monotypes de Pierre-Yves Gabioud, Éd. Conférence, 2008, p. 200

Bibliography edit

  • Christophe Carraud, Maurice Chappaz, suivi d'une Anthologie des grands textes en prose et en vers de Maurice Chappaz, Seghers, coll. " Poètes d'aujourd'hui ", 2005, p. 334

External links edit

  • Literary estate of Maurice Chappaz in the archive database HelveticArchives of the Swiss National Library
  • in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Leading writer dies: One of French-speaking Switzerland's best known authors, Maurice Chappaz, has died at the age of 92.", 15 January 2009, article at the SwissInfo.ch website, retrieved same day
  2. ^ Chappaz, Maurice (1999). Partir à vingt ans (in French). Gerstenberg – La Joie de Lire. p. 222.
  3. ^ (in French) Adieu à Maurice Chappaz
  4. ^ Chappaz, Maurice (1996). Le Garcon qui Croyait au Paradis (in French). l'Aire. p. 145.
  5. ^ (in French) Maurice Chappaz, a film by Jean-Noël Cristiani,2001,52'
  6. ^ Chappaz, Maurice (1994). Les Maquereaux des Cimes Blanches (in French). Zoé. p. 110.
  7. ^ (in French) Maurice Chappaz's interview, November 2008

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Maurice Chappaz 21 December 1916 in Lausanne 15 January 2009 in Martigny was a French language Swiss poet and writer He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards including his country s most notable award the Grand Prix Schiller in 1997 1 1983 Contents 1 Biography 2 Prizes and awards 3 Works 4 Bibliography 5 External links 6 NotesBiography editBorn in Lausanne Maurice Chappaz spent his childhood between Martigny and the abbey of Le Chable in the Swiss canton of Valais Born of a family of lawyers and solicitors nephew of Valaisian secretary of State Maurice Troillet he studied at Saint Maurice Abbey High School then he registered first in Law School at the University of Lausanne but quickly left it to study litterature in the University of Geneva which he also left a few months later A poet above all Maurice Chappaz published his first text Un homme qui vivait couche sur un banc in December 1939 On that occasion he was encouraged by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and Gustave Roud nbsp 1983But as of the summer of 1940 World War II put an end to his availability 2 He thus had to patrol the Swiss borders and published several texts in the review Lettres which were collected in 1944 into Les Grandes Journees de Printemps hailed by Paul Eluard In 1942 he met S Corinna Bille painter Edmond Bille s daughter whom he married in 1947 and with whom he had three children Blaise Achille and Marie Noelle After Corinna s death in 1979 he remarried in 1992 with Michene Caussignac widow of the travel writer Lorenzo Pestelli 3 After the end of World War II Maurice Chappaz travelled in Europe Without any regular occupation and yearning to devote his time to writing he became an occasional press correspondent while managing his uncle s vineyard in Valais As he went through serious personal turmoil he tried new experiences after another and his hand at different jobs while at the same time still more questions cropped up in his mind In 1953 the publishing of the Testament du Haut Rhone crowned a ten year poetic quest The book noted by Charles Albert Cingria was a success its author got awarded the Prix Rambert yet the poet was forced to rethink himself and was thrown into a deep despair 4 To see the world from a new perspective he decided to join the Grande Dixence Dam building site where he worked as a surveyor attendant This experience reconciled him with poetry 5 and its outcome was the Chant de la Grande Dixence written as of 1959 and published in 1965 Later to be followed by Portrait des Valaisans en Legende et en Verite 1965 Office des Morts written in 1963 and published in 1966 or Tendres Campagnes written in 1962 and published in 1966 Maurice Chappaz carried out still other numerous trips around the world Laponia 1968 Paris 1968 Nepal and Tibet 1970 Mount Athos 1972 Lebanon 1974 Russia 1974 et 1979 China 1981 Quebec and New York 1990 In the 1970s the press and the Valaisian population were divided over the publishing of his book Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches The Mackerels of the White Ridges which is a pamphlet against the tourist industry that wreaks havoc in the genuine Valais On that occasion students from Saint Maurice wrote Vive Chappaz long live Chappaz in huge white capital letters on the cliff overlooking the abbey 6 On Corinna Bille s death in 1979 he left Veyras where they had moved in in 1957 and he settled in Le Chable abbey which belonged to his mother s side Then he published poems alternating between the burlesque and a deathly tone A rire et a mourir 1983 he began a 6000 pages Journal held continuously from 1981 to 1987 and wrote a tale and poetical prose dealing with mourning Octobre 79 and Le Livre de C 1986 Eager to publish his wife Corinna Bille s unpublished writings left behind at her death and taking over the translation from Virgil for editions Gallimard 1987 and Theocritus Idylls 1992 he drafted a picture of the Alpine ancient civilization in Valais Tibet 2000 In 1997 Maurice Chappaz was awarded Grand Prix Schiller the most prestigious Swiss award and that same year he was also awarded in France the Poetry Bourse Goncourt for the whole of his work In Autumn 2001 Evangile selon Judas Gospel according to Judas a theological fictitious tale was published by Gallimard In 2002 he wrote a text titled Lettre d une foret a l autre which was published in the art review Trou issue n 12 the head edition 100 issues numbered and signed contained a facsimile of the manuscript of his thank speech for his title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres delivered in Martigny in Autumn 2001 for the French ambassador Chappaz s last published book before his death was La Pipe qui prie et fume in 2008 7 Maurice Chappaz died on 15 January 2009 in Martigny hospital His estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern Prizes and awards editGrand Prix Academie Rhodanienne 1948 Prix Eugene Rambert 1953 Prix de la Ville de Martigny 1966 Prix de l Etat du Valais 1985 Grand Prix Schiller 1997 Bourse Goncourt de la poesie 1997 Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Montagne Passy France 2000Works editLes Grandes Journees de printemps Porrentruy Aux portes de France 1944 p 56 reed Lausanne Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise 1966 p 71 Grand Saint Bernard 80 photographies d Oscar Darbellay Lausanne J Marguerat 1953 pp 23 80 Testament du Haut Rhone Lausanne Rencontre 1953 p 99 reed Lausanne Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise 1966 p 100 reed ill par Gerard de Palezieux Saint Clement de Riviere Fata Morgana 2003 Le Valais au gosier de grive Lausanne Payot 1960 p 77 Chant de la Grande Dixence Lausanne Payot 1965 p 60 Un homme qui vivait couche sur un banc Lausanne Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise 1966 p 110 Office des morts Lausanne Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise 1966 p 79 Tendres Campagnes Lausanne Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise 1966 p 66 Verdures de la nuit Lausanne Cahiers de la renaissance vaudoise 1966 p 53 Le Match Valais Judee 2nd ed dessins d Etienne Delessert Lausanne Cahiers de la Renaissance vaudoise 1969 p 207 La Tentation de l Orient lettres autour du monde Lausanne Cahiers de la Renaissance vaudoise 1970 p 150 Lotschental secret les photographies historiques d Albert Nyfeler ill d A Nyfeler Lausanne Ed 24 heures 1975 p 155 Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches Vevey B Galland 1976 p 68 Portrait des Valaisans en legende et en verite 5th ed Vevey B Galland 1976 p 187 Adieu a Gustave Roud avec Philippe Jaccottet et Jacques Chessex Vevey B Galland 1977 p 85 Pages choisies avec un inedit preface d Etiemble Lausanne Paris A Eibel Ophrys 1977 p 282 Poesie preface de Marcel Raymond Vevey Paris B Galland Payot 1980 A rire et a mourir recits paraboles et chansons du lointain pays Vevey B Galland 1983 p 241 Les Maquereaux des cimes blanches precede de La Haine du passe Geneve Ed Zoe 1984 p 99 Journal des 4000 ill de Claire Colmet Daage Briancon Passage 1985 p 89 Le Livre de C nouv ed revue Lausanne Editions Empreintes 1987 p 151 Le Garcon qui croyait au paradis recit Lausanne Ed 24 heures 1989 p 100 La Veillee des Vikings recits Lausanne Ed 24 heures 1990 p 134 Le Gagne pain du songe correspondance 1928 1961 M Chappaz et Maurice Troillet Lausanne Ed Empreintes 1991 p 283 Journal de l annee 1984 ecriture et errance postfaces de Marius Michaud et de Stephanie Cudre Mauroux Lausanne Ed Empreintes 1996 p 240 La Tentation de l Orient lettres autour du monde M Chappaz et Jean Marc Lovay pref de Nicolas Bouvier post de Jerome Meizoz Geneve Ed Zoe 1997 pp X 141 Bienheureux les lacs ill de Gerard Palezieux Geneve Slatkine 1998 p 108 Partir a vingt ans pref de Jean Starobinski Geneve La Joie de lire 1999 p 216 Evangile selon Judas recit Paris Gallimard 2001 p 167 Le Voyage en Savoie du renard a l eubage photos et real graphique Matthieu Getaz Geneve La Joie de lire 2001 p 94 A Dieu vat entretiens avec Jerome Meizoz Sierre Monographic 2003 p 221 Se reconnaitre poete correspondance 1935 1953 M Chappaz et Gilbert Rossa ed par Francoise Fornerod Geneve Slatkine 2007 p 397 La Pipe qui prie et fume avec 26 reprod de monotypes de Pierre Yves Gabioud Ed Conference 2008 p 200Bibliography editChristophe Carraud Maurice Chappaz suivi d une Anthologie des grands textes en prose et en vers de Maurice Chappaz Seghers coll Poetes d aujourd hui 2005 p 334External links editLiterary estate of Maurice Chappaz in the archive database HelveticArchives of the Swiss National Library Publications by and about Maurice Chappaz in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National LibraryNotes edit Leading writer dies One of French speaking Switzerland s best known authors Maurice Chappaz has died at the age of 92 15 January 2009 article at the SwissInfo ch website retrieved same day Chappaz Maurice 1999 Partir a vingt ans in French Gerstenberg La Joie de Lire p 222 in French Adieu a Maurice Chappaz Chappaz Maurice 1996 Le Garcon qui Croyait au Paradis in French l Aire p 145 in French Maurice Chappaz a film by Jean Noel Cristiani 2001 52 Chappaz Maurice 1994 Les Maquereaux des Cimes Blanches in French Zoe p 110 in French Maurice Chappaz s interview November 2008 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Maurice Chappaz amp oldid 1184819596, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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