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Yves Rosset

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Profile

Born: 1965
Birthplace: Lausanne
Country of birth: Switzerland
Lives in: Berlin, Mitte


Source language: German
Target language: French
Working language: French

Vita

Yves Rosset studied psychology in Geneva and Comparative Literature in Berlin. He has lived in Berlin since 1990 and has worked as a cook, archivist, telephone operator and writer at the taz, and bartender at Kumpelnest 3000. Since 2004 he has translated from German into French, in the fields of literature, architecture, art, and the environment, among others.
 
His books have been published by Bernard Campiche Éditeur in Orbe, in French-speaking Switzerland.
 
His texts to-date have been journal-like, a-fictional montages of sentences, words, quotes, and observations of everyday life which were mostly written by hand in notebooks that the author previously illustrated with images and texts from the printed world.

6 Questions

What brought you to Berlin? Love? World politics? Or was it a coincidence?

Living with roommates.


What do you love about Berlin?

Many things, and the vastness.


What do you miss in Berlin?

Being close to the mountains.


What is your favorite spot in Berlin?

The Tegeler Fließ in the “Tegeler Fließ“ nature reserve north of the Lübarser Felder.


Would you say you are a different person in Berlin? A different translator? And if yes, in what way?

Here 97% of my friends don’t know me as an author, because of the language, which is kind of strange.


Which existing literary work do you wish you had written?

It’s yet to come.

Awards

Prix Georges Nicole 2001
Prix de la Fondation Edouard et Maurice Sandoz (FEMS) 2003

Work

Publications in original language

Les externalités négatives

Bernard Campiche Editeur, 2017 Chronik

Aires de repos sur l'autoroute de l'information

Bernard Campiche Editeur, Orbe, 2001 Chronik

Les Oasis de transit

Bernarc Campiche Editeur, Orbe, Suisse , 2005 Reisezerzählung