Benoîte Crevoisier (14 March 1938 – 20 August 2024) was a Swiss writer.[1]
Benoîte Crevoisier | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 March 1938 |
| Died | 20 August 2024 (aged 86) Saignelégier, Jura, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Writer |
Biography
editBorn in Lajoux on 14 March 1938, Crevoisier grew up in Canton of Bern.[2] She was the tenth-born of twelve children.[3] Her parents, Arnold and Marie, were Catholics.[4] Her father was a schoolteacher.[5] After her schooling in Lajoux and Porrentruy, she attended a teaching institute in Delémont and subsequently taught in Châtelat and Lajoux from 1958 to 1991. She then moved to France, where she lived for seven years before returning to Switzerland and living in Les Breuleux.[6] The mother of three children, she was one of the first women to be divorced in Lajoux.[3]
Crevoisier was known for campaigning against a military parade ground in Franches-Montagnes District from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. She recounted these years in her autobiography, Le bras de fer, published in 2019.[7]
Benoîte Crevoisier died in Saignelégier on 20 August 2024, at the age of 86.[8]
Publications
edit- Poignée d’escarbilles (1992)
- Le Miroir aux alouettes (1994)
- Avec un grain de sel (2007)
- Mesdemoiselles (2011)
- Le bras de fer : regard d'une militante sur l'affaire de la place d'armes des Franches-Montagnes (2019)
References
edit- ^ Nicollier, Alain (1994). Dictionnaire des écrivains suisses d'expression française (in French). Vol. 1. GVA. p. 290. ISBN 978-2881150128.
- ^ "Crevoisier, Benoîte (1938-2024)". Dictionnaire du Jura (in French).
- ^ a b Curvaia, Valentine (20 August 2024). "Décès de Benoîte Crevoisier, écrivaine et militante franc-montagnarde". Le Quotidien Jurassien (in French). Franches-Montagnes. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ Gogniat, Rémy (26 August 2024). "Benoîte Crevoisier". Le Temps (in French).
- ^ "Benoîte Saucy-Crevoisier". Association des écrivains neuchâtelois et jurassiens (in French).
- ^ "Benoîte Crevoisier". Delibreo Editions (in French). Archived from the original on 22 December 2007.
- ^ "L'invitée: Benoîte Crevoisier, militante jurassienne". Canal Alpha (in French). 9 July 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "Benoîte Crevoisier a rendu la plume". Radio fréquence Jura (in French). 21 August 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2024.