Marie-Jeanne Urech
Switzerland
Born in Lausanne in 1976, Marie-Jeanne Urech studied sociology and anthropology at the University of Lausanne and received her diploma from the London Film School in 2001. After making three documentary films, she turned to literary writing and currently lives in the city of her birth, working as a freelance writer.
All of Marie-Jeanne Urech’s books are distinguished by a relaxed and humorous, yet profound treatment of serious subjects. K comme Almanach (K Like Almanac) is set in a city gradually succumbing to the effects of climate change: flooded by rising seas, scorched by the sun and the desert, invaded by the jungle. While ever more people decide to take the space ferry to Belgador, an unknown but paradisical planet, Simon, a lamplighter by profession, stubbornly decides to remain along with quirky characters who also deny reality. The publisher calls the book a “parable about love and letting go, about sparks of hope in a world that seems destined to disappear.” Urech’s latest novel appeared earlier this year: Leur grandeur amputée (Their Amputated Grandeur). It forms a triptyque with K comme Almanach and La terre tremblante (The Trembling Earth).
X wie Dictionnaire. Novel. Aus dem Französischen von Lis Künzli. Rotpunktverlag 2024
Schnitz. Novel. Aus dem Französischen von Lis Künzli. bilgerverlag 2017
Requisiten für das Paradies. Novel. Aus dem Französischen von Claudia Steinitz. bilgerverlag 2013
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