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Yves Velan

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Yves Velan, (29 August 1925 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne – 6 May 2017) was a Swiss writer from Bassins.

Biography

He studied literature at Lausanne, where he joined the Society of Belles Lettres, and worked two years as a reader at the University of Florence. He founded with others the leftist literary magazine Rencontre (1949–1952).

A communist, member of the Parti ouvrier et populaire [fr] from the end of the war until 1957, he was forbidden to work and was excluded from teaching in the Canton of Vaud. He then moved to La Chaux-de-Fonds where he taught literature at the gymnasium until his retirement in 1991. In the late sixties he temporarily left the Neuchâtel Jura for a long stay in the United States where he taught French literature at the [ University Illinois] in [Urbana-Champaign Illinois].

His first novel Je was published in 1959 in Paris. He also published two novels, La Statue de Condillac retouchée (1973), Soft Goulag (1977) and an essay, Contre-pouvoir, where he questions the culture and its requirements. In addition to these books, there are numerous publications in reviews, a "essay-poem", Onir (1974), a tale, Le Chat muche (1986). Moreover, during the years 1950 to 1980, he had an important activity of criticism published in France, the United States and French-speaking Switzerland.

The work of Yves Velan was crowned by the Grand Prix C. F. Ramuz and the literature prize of the canton of Neuchâtel.

Velan died on 6 May 2017.[1]

Publications

  • 1959: Je, Éditions du Seuil
  • 1973: La Statue de Condillac retouchée, Seuil
  • 1974: Onir, in Écriture 9, éditions Bertil Galland, Vevey
  • 1977: Soft Goulag, éditions Bertil Galland, Vevey

Bibliography

  • Pascal Antonietti, Yves Velan, New York/Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005

References

  1. ^ "Carnet noir: l'écrivain chaux-de-fonnier d'origine vaudoise Yves Velan est décédé à 91 ans". LaCôte (in French). 8 May 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

Sources

  • Écrivain vaudois
  • A contre temps, huitante textes vaudois de 1980 à 1380, p. 37
  • Hadrien Buclin, Entre culture du consensus et critique sociale. Les intellectuels de gauche dans la Suisse de l'après-guerre (1945-1968), Thèse de doctorat, Université de Lausanne, 2015.
  • Alain Nicollier, Henri-Charles Dahlem, Dictionnaire des écrivains suisses d'expression française, vol. 2, p. 874-877
  • Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande, under the dir. de R. Francillon, vol. 3, p. 445-456
  • La Revue de Belles-Lettres, 1992, no 3-4 La machine Velan devoted to Yves Velan