• Jacques Chessex (Payerne, 1 March 1934 – Yverdon-les-Bains, 9 October 2009) was a Swiss author and painter. Biography. Chessex was born in 1934 in Payerne.
  • "Silky prose in this harrowing account of crime and punishment."—Kirkus Reviews "Using spare, effective prose, Chessex brilliantly renders both the inhospitable...
  • Author of Portrait des Vaudois, Jacques Chessex, Feux d'orée, Carabas, Flaubert, ou, Le désert en abîme, L' ardent royaume, La trinité, Jew Must Die.
  • Jacques Chessex was born on 1 March 1934 in Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland.
  • Né en 1934 à Paverne et décédé en octobre 2009, romancier, poète, peintre, Jacques Chessex était l'un de nos plus grands écrivains de langue française.
  • The Swiss writer Jacques Chessex, who has died, apparently from a heart attack, aged 75, was the first non-French citizen to win France's most prestigious...
  • Born in 1934 in Payerne, in the region of French-speaking Switzerland known as the Vaud, Chessex grew up amid the pervasive influence of the Calvinist church.
  • “Explorer of the human soul in all its complexity, Jacques Chessex will remain one of the major French-language literary talents of our era,” he said.
  • Jacques Chessex won the Prix Goncourt in 1973 for his novel L’Ogre, published in English translation as The Tyrant by Bitter Lemon Press in 2012.