Laurence Boissier | |
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Born | Geneva, Switzerland | 12 August 1965
Died | 7 January 2022 | (aged 56)
Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation(s) | Writer Artist |
Laurence Boissier (12 August 1965 – 7 January 2022) was a Swiss writer, artist, and architect.[1]
Boissier studied architectural engineering at the École des arts décoratifs de Genève. For two years, she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, visiting prisons in Serbia and South Africa. For ten years, she worked for the Canton of Geneva as an engineer in building physics.[2]
She then studied at the Geneva University of Art and Design and earned an art degree in 2009.[3] She wrote several collections of texts and a novel on non-conformity.[4][5] In 2011, she joined Bern ist überall , a group of German- and French-language Swiss writers.[2] In 2017, she received a Swiss Literature Award.[6]
Boissier died on 7 January 2022, at the age of 56.[7]