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Pierrette Micheloud (December 6, 1915 – November 14, 2007) was a Swiss writer and painter.
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Life
She was born in Romont and studied at Neuchâtel and Lausanne. She next spent some time in England perfecting her English, going on to study French literature and German at the University of Zurich and theology at the University of Lausanne. She lived in Paris from 1950, where she devoted herself primarily to writing poetry. She also contributed to the Swiss periodicals La Liberté, Gazette de Lausanne and Treize Etoiles and Les Nouvelles littéraires of Paris. During the 1970s, she was editor of the Paris literary magazine La voix des poètes. Micheloud also wrote a column on poetry for the weekly Construire.
During her time in Paris, there were more than ten major exhibits of her paintings.
Micheloud died in Cully at the age of 91. A foundation was created in her name to preserve and promote her work; it awards an annual prize for poetry in French.
Awards
In 1964, with Edith Mora, she founded the Prix Louise-Labé; the jury for this award consists entirely of women. She received the: