Gabrielle Alioth
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Born | 21 April 1955 Basel | (age 66)
Gabrielle Alioth (born 21 April 1955) is a Swiss author of novels, short stories, children's books and travelogues, resident in Ireland since 1984.
Biography[]
Gabrielle Alioth was born on 21 April 1955 in Basel and grew up in Riehen; she went on to study political science, economics, art history and philosophy in Basel and Salzburg Universities. In 1979 she began working in the University of Basel and as a researcher at Prognos AG in econometric forecasting and Operations Research.
Alioth moved with her husband, (divorced in 2015), to Ireland in 1984, where she worked as a journalist and translator. From 1990 Alioth began working as a freelance writer. Since 2011 she lives in Termonfeckin, County Louth.
In 1991 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, and the same year was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize. In 2020 she was awarded the Cultural Prize of Riehen. Alioth is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland and the PEN Center of German-Speaking Authors Abroad.
She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California in 1997 and University College Dublin in 2005, and later on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. Alioth has also been guest lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 2002 and at the University of St. Gallen in 2016, and works as a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2004.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Bibliography[]
Novels and stories[]
- The fool, 1990
- Like a precious stone, 1994
- The ark of women, 1996
- The dumb horsewoman, 1998
- The magic light, 2001
- In the valley of the shadows, 2002
- The invention of love and death, 2003
- The examining look, 2007
- The bride from Byzantium, 2008
- The Greek Empress, 2011
- The stolen manuscript, 2016
- The woman from Thebes, 2016
- Tell - my dad, 2018
- Gallus the stranger, 2018
- In the library of the bear , 2019
Poetry[]
- The Poet's Coat - The poet's coat, 2019
Nonfiction[]
- Shared - 24 life stories of women from Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, 2008
- Emigrants - Swiss emigrants from 7 centuries, 2014
Travel books[]
- Ireland. A journey through the land of the rainbow, 2003
- Ireland, with Northern Ireland. Photos by Max Schmid, 2004
- Ireland. Photos by Marco Paoluzzo, 2007
- Ireland at second glance. An island in thirty texts , 2012
Plays[]
- Ärger uf de Arche, 2006
- Orpheus!
References and sources[]
- ^ "Book list". Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "Welcome to the website of Gabrielle Alioth". Willkommen auf der Website von Gabrielle Alioth. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "A D S - Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz - Autrices et Auteurs de Suisse - Autrici ed Autori della Svizzera". lexikon.a-d-s.ch (in German). 2003-01-01. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ penadmin (2016-07-23). "Texte von Gabrielle Alioth". PEN Zentrum Ausland (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "Schweizer Autoren und Autorinnen". Bibliomedia (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "Reading by Swiss-Irish writer Gabrielle Alioth". University of Limerick. 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ "UCD News". University College Dublin. 2006-02-23. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- ^ Studer, P.; Sabine Egger (2007). From the Margins to the Centre: Irish Perspectives on Swiss Culture and Literature. German linguistic and cultural studies. Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-03910-716-2. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
- 1955 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Swiss women writers
- University of Basel alumni
- 20th-century Swiss journalists
- People from Riehen
- People from County Louth