Alice Rivaz

Alice Golay was born on 14 August 1901 in Rovray, in the canton of Vaud, the only child of a schoolteacher who became a socialist journalist. Trained as a pianist at the Lausanne conservatory, she settled in Geneva in 1925, where she worked for some fifteen years as a shorthand typist at the International Labour Office. With Ramuz's support, she published her first novel, Nuages dans la main, in 1940 under the name Alice Rivaz, then Comme le sable, Le Creux de la vague and Jette ton pain. She received the Grand Prix Ramuz in 1980 and died on 27 February 1998.

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• NovelLa Paix des ruchesAlice Rivaz · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature