Gabrielle Alioth Explained

Gabrielle Alioth
Birth Place:Basel, Switzerland
Occupation:Author

Gabrielle Alioth (born 21 April 1955) is a Swiss author of novels, short stories, children's books and travelogues, resident in Ireland since 1984.

Biography

Gabrielle Alioth was born on 21 April 1955 in Basel and grew up in Riehen; she went on to study political science, economics, art history and philosophy in Basel and Salzburg Universities. In 1979 she began working in the University of Basel and as a researcher at Prognos AG in econometric forecasting and Operations Research.[1] [2]

Alioth moved with her husband, Martin Alioth (divorced in 2015), to Ireland in 1984, where she worked as a journalist and translator. From 1990 Alioth began working as a freelance writer. Since 2011 she lives in Termonfeckin, County Louth.[3] [4]

In 1991 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, and the same year was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize. 2012 Geertje Potash-Suhr Prose Prize. In 2020 she was awarded the Cultural Prize of Riehen. 2022 SCALG Poetry Prize. Alioth is a member of the Association of Authors of Switzerland and president of the PEN Center of German-Speaking Authors Abroad.

She has been writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California in 1997 and University College Dublin in 2005, and later on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. Alioth has also been guest lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 2002 and at the University of St. Gallen in 2016, and worked as a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts from 2004 to 2021.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Bibliography

Novels and stories

Poetry

Nonfiction

Travel books

Plays

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Über mich . www.gabriellealioth.com/ . de-DE.
  2. Web site: Seite 15 . Exil Pen PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland . de-DE.
  3. Web site: Around the Districts: Stamullen and Termonfeckin . Independent.ie . 20 April 2022 . 25 January 2024.
  4. Web site: Gabrielle Alioth . Irish Life & Lore . 10 October 2019 . 25 January 2024.
  5. Web site: Book list. 2019-10-17.
  6. Web site: DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek . DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek . de . 2019-10-17.
  7. Web site: Welcome to the website of Gabrielle Alioth . Willkommen auf der Website von Gabrielle Alioth . 2019-10-17.
  8. Web site: A D S - Autorinnen und Autoren der Schweiz - Autrices et Auteurs de Suisse - Autrici ed Autori della Svizzera . lexikon.a-d-s.ch . 2003-01-01 . de . 2019-10-17.
  9. Web site: penadmin . Texte von Gabrielle Alioth . PEN Zentrum Ausland . 2016-07-23 . de . 2019-10-17.
  10. Web site: Schweizer Autoren und Autorinnen . Bibliomedia . de . 2019-10-17.
  11. Web site: Reading by Swiss-Irish writer Gabrielle Alioth . University of Limerick . 2016-09-27 . 2019-10-17.
  12. Web site: UCD News . University College Dublin . 2006-02-23 . 2019-10-17.
  13. Book: Studer, P. . Sabine Egger . From the Margins to the Centre: Irish Perspectives on Swiss Culture and Literature . Peter Lang Pub Incorporated . German linguistic and cultural studies . 2007 . 978-3-03910-716-2 . 2019-10-17 . 24.

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