Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

"Ramuz" redirects here. For the city in Iran, see Ramhormoz.

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Ramuz on 200 CHF note
Born	September 24, 1878(1878-09-24) Lausanne, Switzerland
Died	May 23, 1947(1947-05-23) (aged 68) Lausanne, Switzerland
Occupation	Novelist, Poet
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Lausanne
Period	1903 - 1947
Notable work(s)	La Grande Peur dans la Montagne
Spouse(s)	Cécille Cellier (b. 1872, d. 1956)

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (September 24, 1878 – May 23, 1947) was a French-speaking Swiss writer.

He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby Aubonne, and then in Weimar, Germany. In 1903, he left for Paris and remained there until World War I, with frequent trips home to Switzerland. In 1903, he published Le petit village, a collection of poems.

In 1914, he returned to Switzerland, where he lived a retired life devoted to his writing.

He wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat.

He died in Pully, near Lausanne in the year 1947. His likeness and an artistic impression of his works appear on the 200 Swiss franc note (in current use). The Fondation C.F. Ramuz in Pully awards the Grand Prix C.F. Ramuz.

Works

• Le petit village (1903)
• Aline (1905)
• Jean-Luc persécuté (1909)
• Aimé Pache, peintre vaudois (1911)
• Vie de Samuel Belet (1913)
• Raison d'être (1914)
• Le règne de l'esprit malin (1917)
• La guérison des malades (1917)
• Les signes parmi nous (1919)
• Salutation paysanne (1919)
• Terre du ciel (1921)
• Présence de la mort (1922)
• La séparation des races (1922)
• Passage du poète (1923)
• L'amour du monde (1925)
• La grande peur dans la montagne (1926)
• La beauté sur la terre (1927)
• Adam et Eve (1932)
• Derborence (1934)
• Questions (1935)
• Le garçon savoyard (1936)
• Taille de l'homme (1937)
• Besoin de grandeur (1937)
• Si le soleil ne revenait pas... (1937)
• Paris, notes d'un vaudois (1938)
• Découverte du monde (1939)
• La guerre aux papiers (1942)
• René Auberjonois (1943)
• Nouvelles (1944)

Awards

• 1927 Prix Gottfried Keller

External links

• Biography of C.F. Ramuz

Films

• French edition of 7 feature films based on novels by C.F. Ramuz

Persondata
Name	Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	September 24, 1878
Place of birth	Lausanne, Switzerland
Date of death	May 23, 1947
Place of death	Lausanne, Switzerland