Anne Cuneo

Anne Cuneo (6 September 1936 – 11 February 2015) was a Swiss journalist, novelist, theatre and film director and screenwriter.

She was born in Paris of Italian parents, but studied in Lausanne. Her first novel came in 1967 and was called Gravé au diamant. In 1979 she received the lesser prize of the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung and by 1987 she worked for Télévision Suisse Romande.

Her career spanned four decades and fifteen novels, as well as dozens of plays and scripts for theatre, TV and radio. She died in 2015.

in 1995 Cuneo's novel Le trajet d’une rivière was awarded the prestigious Prix des Libraires, which celebrates the best novel published in the Francophone world each year.

Filmography

1982: Cinéjournal au féminin

1983: Signes de terre, signes de chair

1986: Basta

1992: Durchdringende Welten, le peintre Cenak Prajak

1996: Die letzte Karte, Friedrich Glaser

1996: Francis Tregian, Gentleman et Musicien

1998: D'or et d'oubli (script)

2001: La Petite Gilberte, Anne-Marie Blanc comédienne

2002: Ettore Cella, ein Künstlerleben

2003: Ferdi 'national' Kübler

2006: Opération Shakespeare à la Vallée de Joux

Awards

1969: L'Anti-Prix de la Radio Suisse Romande

1979: Schiller Award for her oeuvre

1981: Prix culturel du Canton Zurich

1990: Bibliomedia et Prix Alpes-Jura, for Station Victoria

1994: Prix des Auditeurs de la Radio suisse romande

1994: Prix de la Fondation vaudoise pour la Promotion artistique

1995: Prix des Libraires et Prix litteraire "Madame Europe" for Le Trajet d'une rivière

2008 Anne Cuneo was awarded the title "Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française"

2013 she was named "Commandeur de l’ordre National du Mérite".