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Authors

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z

A

Fabiano Alborghetti,

Carole Allamand,

B

Guido Bachmann,

Jean-Luc Benoziglio,

Bern ist überall,

Clo Duri Bezzola,

S. Corinna Bille,

Giovanni Bonalumi,

Nicolas Bouvier,

Irena Brežná,

Lukas Bärfuss,

C

Arno Camenisch,

Maurice Chappaz,

Gaston Cherpillod,

Jacques Chessex,

Anita Siegfried (Text),

Claudia de Weck (Ill.),

Martina Clavadetscher,

Nicolas Couchepin

D

Massimo Daviddi,

Martin R. Dean,

Zora del Buono,

Max Huwyler (Text),

Dieter Leuenberger (Ill.),

Friedrich Dürrenmatt,

E

Dorothee Elmiger,

F

Andrea Fazioli,

Felice Filippini,

Catalin D. Florescu,

Ursula Fricker,

Alexandre Friederich,

G

Zsuzsanna Gahse,

Katharina Geiser,

Andrea Gianinazzi,

Dagny Gioulami,

Eugen Gomringer,

Nora Gomringer,

H

Thomas Hürlimann,

Michael Hugentobler,

I

Felix Philipp Ingold

J

K

Lorenz Pauli (Text),

Kathrin Schärer (Ill.),

Christoph Keller,

Birgit Kempker,

Pascale Kramer,

Robert Walser (Text),

Käthi Bhend (Ill.),

L

Monique Laederach,

Eva Maria Leuenberger,

Gertrud Leutenegger,

Hugo Loetscher,

Catherine Louis,

M

Pietro de Marchi,

Plinio Martini,

Grytzko Mascioni,

Jérôme Meizoz,

Michel Mettler,

Gianna Molinari,

Perikles Monioudis,

N

Melinda Nadj Abonji,

Andreas Neeser,

O

Giovanni Orelli,

Angelika Overath

P

Rose-Marie Pagnard,

Marius Daniel Popescu,

Dubravko Pušek,

Q

R

Philippe Rahmy,

Dragica Rajčić,

S

Catherine Safonoff,

Hansjörg Schertenleib,

Michail Schischkin,

Hansjörg Schneider,

Kathrin Schärer,

Jürg Schubiger,

Hans Schumacher,

Ruth Schweikert,

Monique Schwitter,

Tommaso Soldini,

Michael Stauffer,

Michelle Steinbeck,

Carmen Stephan,

T

José-Flore Tappy,

Pierre-Alain Tâche,

Matteo Terzaghi,

U

Marie-Jeanne Urech,

Raphael Urweider

V

Aglaja Veteranyi,

Christina Viragh,

W

Frédéric Wandelère,

Z

Mary-Laure Zoss,

Matthias Zschokke

Catherine Safonoff

Le Mineur et le Canari

Le Mineur et le Canari

«11 p.m. I’m listening to the radio when a loud knock on the patio door makes me jump. I’m sure it’s Franca. Last time she stayed here, I swore it would be the last.»

Swiss Literature Prizes 2012

Combining the lightness of everyday existence with the seriousness of traumatic memories and switching with a constant fluidity from one register to another, Safonoff’s novel has the elegance of a butterfly fluttering towards the depths of the human soul. An old lady suffering from depression seeks comfort from a psychoanalyst, with whom she immediately falls in impossible, enchanted love. Fantasy comes into play, but this narrative inspired by autobiographical events also casts an acutely lucid gaze on the world, its failings, its small joys and un-mendable wounds, and is ceaselessly tugged along by a self-deprecation that is at once humorous and melancholic. The tightrope walker is on the rope, moving ahead chapter by short chapter, and keeps us in suspense until the end, leaving a permanent smile on our lips: she doesn’t fall, and the reader is carried away on the narrative.

(Jury selection of the Swiss Literature Prize, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

Translation of title: The Miner and the Canary

Editions Zoé, Genève 2012

ISBN: 978-2-88182-872-0

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