Albertine Zullo (born 1967), known simply as Albertine, is a Swiss illustrator. She specializes in illustrating children's books, many of which have been published in English. Since 1996, she has taught screen printing at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). [1] [2] Zullo was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustrator in 2020. [3] [4]
Born on 1 December 1967 in Dardagny in the Swiss Canton of Geneva. [4] She attended the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Geneva, [4] and the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel de Genève (ESAV), graduating in 1990. She immediately opened a screen printing studio. Starting in 1991, she provided illustrations for various newspapers including Le Nouveau Quotidien , L'Hebdo and Le Temps . [5]
In 1993, she met the writer Germano Zullo. After their marriage in 1996, they collaborated closely, publishing numerous books and receiving several awards. [4] [6] These included the Golden Apple in the Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava (1999) and the Prix suisse Jeunesse et Médias (2009). Albertine has also exhibited her work in Geneva, Lausanne, Paris, Rome and Tokyo. [5]
In 2020 Albertine won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration. [3]
Ella Maillart was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.
Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure was a Swiss chemist and student of plant physiology who made seminal advances in phytochemistry. He is one of the major pioneers in the study of photosynthesis.
The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland. It aims to present the history of Switzerland in the form of an encyclopaedia, published both on paper and on the internet, in three of the country's national languages: German, French and Italian. When it was completed at the end of 2014, the paper version contained around 36,000 articles divided into thirteen volumes. At the same time, a reduced edition of the dictionary has been published in Romansh under the title Lexicon istoric retic (LIR), and constitutes the first specialist dictionary in the Rhaeto-Romance, Switzerland.
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Valais Monster, also known as Eischoll Wolf, and Mysterious animal of Leuk, is the nickname of one or more ferocious beasts that attacked numerous herds in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, from April 1946. Starting from the report of the herds devoured on the mountain pastures, the rumor swells. The Swiss press used the name "monster". Among a multitude of supposed identities, those of a lynx or one or several panthers dominate, supported by testimonies followed by many in the media. However, the Valais Monster seems to have been a large European wolf, shot in Eischoll on 27 November 1947.
Noëlle Revaz is a Swiss author, who writes in French. She is best known for her first novel, Rapport aux bêtes, which won several literary awards, including the Schiller Prize, the Prix Marguerite Audoux, the Prix Lettres Frontière, and the Henri Gaspoz Prize, and has been adapted for stage and film.
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