Maurice Chappaz

Maurice Chappaz was born on 21 December 1916 in Lausanne, into a family of Valais jurists, nephew of the politician Maurice Troillet, and grew up notably in Martigny. After the college of Saint-Maurice, he began law in Lausanne without finishing it. Gustave Roud, who became his friend, welcomed his first text as early as 1940. He married the writer Corinna Bille, managed his uncle's vineyards at Fully, translated Virgil and Theocritus, and fought mass tourism in the Valais. He received the Schiller Grand Prize in 1997 and died in Martigny on 15 January 2009.

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• PoetryTestament du Haut-RhôneMaurice Chappaz · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature