Georges Piroué
Georges Piroué (5 August 1920, La Chaux-de-Fonds – 7 January 2005, Dampierre-sur-Loire near Saumur age 84) was a Swiss writer. Biography. After studying literature and a doctorate at the University of Neuchâtel, Georges Piroué left for Paris. After he published two collections of poetry, "Nature sans rivage" (1951) and "Chansons à dire" (1953), he turned to the writing of short stories. He became a literary advisor and set up a translation department for the authors of Southern Italy and Sicily at the Éditions Denoël, which published almost all his texts from 1960 to 1985. Georges