Maurice Chappaz [SEP] place of death
Maurice Chappaz
Maurice Chappaz (21 December 1916, in Lausanne – 15 January 2009) was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards, including his country's most notable award, the Grand Prix Schiller, in 1997.
Biography.
Born in Lausanne, Maurice Chappaz spent his childhood between Martigny and the abbey of Le Châble, in the Swiss canton of Valais. Born of a family of lawyers and sollicitors, nephew of Valaisian secretary of State Maurice
, Maurice Chappaz. Roud was also a mentor to the young Philippe Jaccottet, who would later become one of Switzerland's most accomplished poets. 
Considered one of the greatest poets of Romandy, Roud attempts in his poetry, which is dedicated to the landscapes of the Haut-Jorat, to reach a perception of an "elsewhere" or of a lost paradise. His most famous work is "Air de la solitude".
Following his death in 1976 in Moudon, the "Association des Amis de Gustave Roud"