Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (September 24, 1878 – May 24, 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, Germay. 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 L'histoire d'un soldat.

He died in Pully, near Lausanne.

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 regne de l'esprit malin (1917)
• La guerison 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)
• 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

• http://pages.infinit.net/poibru/ramuz/bioramuz.htm