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Timeline of Swiss Literature in Rumantsch/Romansh Language

Epoch	Writer	Lifetime	Major Works
19^th and early 20^th century	Giacun Hasper Muoth	Breil, 1844 - 1906	poetry
	Peider Lansel
	Artur Caflisch	Zuoz, 1893-1971	poetry, dramas
	Maurus Carnot	1888-1958
	Men Rauch singer/ songwriter comedian
	Gian Fontana	1897-1935
	Men Gaudenz	1899-1982	(religious plays)
	Selina Chönz	Samedan, 1910 - 2000	Uorsin; Flurina; La naivera (illustrated stories for children, have been translated into 11 languages)
post war	Flurin Darms	Flond,	Pastor, bible translator, poet
	Jon Semadeni play writer	1910 - 1981	Cudesch da lectüra per las classas otas da las scoulas ladinas (reading book for schools, 1947); La s-chürdüm dal sulai (Drama in 3 acts, 1953); Ün quader chi nu quadra (Cumedgia in 3 acts, 1959); Il bal da la schocca cotschna (Gö dramatic cun chant, musica e sots, 1960); L'uman derschader (Drama in 3 acts, 1964); La jürada ( (1967); Il giat cotschen (1980); Ouvras dramaticas (1980); Il cortegi commemorativ guerra e pasch (1998);
	Toni Halter	Surselva 1914 - 1986	Il misteri da Caumastgira (short stories, 1943); Igl um cul halumbart (drama, 1947); Nus ed il Schuob (short stories, 1948); Fumegl Bistgaun (short story, 1948); Il Festival da Porclas (drama, 1952); Culan da Crestaulta (novel, 1955); Il cavalè della Greina (novel, 1960); General Demont (drama, 1963); Ils 3 s. Retgs da Cavidra (short stories, 1963); La canzun dil Rein (1965); Caumsura (novel, 1967); Fein selvadi (short stories, 1973); Nadal (short stories, 1973); Naven da Valata (novel, 1994)
	Tista Murk head of radio programming library manager	Val Müstair 1915-04-15 1992-08-18	Il chavrerin (short story, 1943); Spinai (short story, 1944); Prüms prüis (poems, 1945); Chalavaina (historical drama, 1949); La mort dal poet (drama, 1950); Il s-chazi (1956); La tuor (1958); Il triarch (play, 1962); La prova (play, 1962); Das Dreibogenspiel (play in German, 1964); Nos min (short stories and legends, 1973); Il triarch (drama, 1980); Ils chastè dals giats (opera text, 1988); Il treis vents ni Il mat e la diala (drama, 1988); Tredischin (drama, 1988); Cronica d`üna famiglia (1990); La Raieta (opera libretto, 1991); Poesias (poems, 1998)
	Gian Belsch (pseudonym for Albert Wihler, pastor from Schwyz living in Zuoz)		(religious plays)
	Chatrina Filli
	Armon Planta	Sent, 1917 - 1986	political poetry, founder of Chardun, a satirical monthly
	Cla Biert teacher painter poet	Scuol 1920-07-26 - Chur 1981-03-19	La müdada (novel, 1962); short stories: Pangronds. Set raquints valladers (1949); Amuras: Raquints (1956); Istorgias (1956); L`hom strom (1957); Ora pro'ls puozs (1957); Amuras naira (1957); Laina verda. Raquints (1958); La fotsch (1969); Fain manü. Istorgias per uffants (stories for children, 1969); Her ed hoz. Raquints (1975); Il descendent - Der Nachkomme. Raquints rumantsch cun traducziun tudais-cha dad Iso Camartin (1981); Cla Biert rachinta. Versiung surmirana da Faust Sigonrell (stories for children, 1983) Chels da Patnaglia ed igl amprem automobil (1983); L'amprema geda cun töf (1983) Co ch'eu fetsch ün'istorgia (1990); Las fluors dal desert. Raquints e sömmis our dal relasch (1993)
	Hendri Spescha	Trun, 1928 - Zurich, 1982	TV journalist
	Andri Peer, high school teacher, poet	Sent, 1921 - Winterthur, 1985	Sendas (poetry); Il giavin dalla siringia (1984); Uss (1985)
	Oscar Peer novelist (brother of Andri Peer)	Lavin, 1928	Nozzas d'inviern; Eva; Accord
	Luisa Famos	Ramosch, died 1974;	Mumaints; Inscunters (poems)
	Gion Deplazes Vice director of cantonal high school, writer	Surrein, 1918	La Bargia (1976); Purginas: poesias (1976); Bittere Lippen (1976); Marlengia (1980); Ragischs (1982); Ovras (1983); Placi pign raquenta (1983); Clavs (1985); Cambridas (1988); Carstgauns s'entaupan (story for children, 1991); Die Rätoromanen: ihre Identität in der Literatur (The Rhetians and their identity in literature, a history of Rumantsch literature, written in German language, 1991); Litteratura contemporana : istorgia da la litteratura rumantscha per scola e pievel (history of contemporary Rumantsch literature for schools, 1993); Ovra litterara (1994-2003); Allas rivas (1994); Praulas ord la Sibiria (story for children, 1995); La spina ella spatla (2001); Sco igl effel va ell'onza (2003); Passiun (religious drama based on traditional sources)
	Margarita Gangale
	Vic Hendry novelist	Cavosgia, 1920	Discuors cugl assassin
	Donat Cadruvi politician novelist	1923-1998	novels
	Theo Candinas writer		Historias da Gion Barlac (short story)
	Anna Pitschna Grob-Ganzoni writer	Schlarigna, 1922	(stories for children)
	Peder Cadotsch dentist poet	Bonaduz 1922-05-22 Savognin 2002-06-20	Igl schluppet (play, 1963); Tera banadeida (lyrics and prose, 1967); Sbrenslas (poems, 1971); Igl egn dall`unitad. Gieu cun musica per scolars (play with music for pupils, 1979); Veta e tradiziun (musical, 1982); Fultscheidas e raschladas (prose, 1983); Gleisch avonda (poems, 1984); Melodias dalla Gelgia (poems, 1986); Giavischs sa cumplaneschan (play, 1987); Las violas da Faller (play, 1989); La veia dalla crousch (oratorium, 1990); Anc sgolan las ronslas (poems, 1992); La gronda midada. Gieu cun musica per scolars (play with music for pupis, 1996); Treis locomotivas sen viadi (play, 1997);
	Ursicin G.G. Derungs novelist	Vella, 1935	Il saltar dils morts ([dance of the death], criticising the monastery of Disentis, 1982)
Contemporary
	Leta Semadeni teacher poet	Scuol 1944-10-26	Turicum (2 short stories, 1992); Carte Blanche (poems, 2000); Orte (poems, 2003, 2007); Amurellas (short story, 2006); Poesias da chadafö / Küchengedichte (bilingual poems 2006)
	Clo Duri Bezzola teacher and writer	Scuol 1945-07-14 - Oetwil am See, 2004	This writer perfectly represents the bilingualism of the Rumantsch speaking minority in Switzerland: born in the Rumantsch town of Scuol, he moved to the Zurich area, and he published both in Rumantsch and German. S'hätt gschället (play in Swiss German, 1977); Our per la romma (poetry, 1978); Chanzuns per uffants per nov cudesch da chant (Rumantsch songs for children, 1981); Tarzan - o vacanzas a Meran (play in Rumantsch, 1984); A l'ur dal di (lyrics and prose, 1984); La chà dal sulai (lyrics and prose, 1987); Zwischenzeit (novel in standard German, 1996); Eine Seele, zwei Sprachen ([One soul, two languages], essay, 1997); Das gestohlene Blau/Il blau engulà (poems, biligual, 1998); Titanic (play, 1999); Typisch - Die Engadiner zwischen Fernweh nach der Weite und Heimweh nach der Enge (essay about the people of Engadin seeking the wideness of the world and yet feeling homesick for narrowness, 1999); Kassettenbriefe (letters on cassette, produced for Swiss national public radio 1983); Desideri (radio play, Radio Rumantsch, 2001); Kindels dal malom (anthology of children's works ed. by Clo Duri Bezzola, 1977); Translations from German into Rumantsch by Clo Duri Bezzola: Grips: Üna festa pro Antonio (Ein Fest für Papadakis, trad. 1974); Inglin Meinrad: Plasch Tartea (Chlaus Lymbacher, trad. 1978); Tü ed eu da pè a cheu (biology for children, 1972);
	Tina Nolfi	Lavin	Sfessas albas (poetry)
	Ruth Poulda	Tarasp 1948	(poetry)
	Flurin Spescha (son of Hendri Spescha) writer, translator	Domat, 1958 - Zurich, 2000
	Silvio Camenisch novelist	Rueun, 1953	Miez miur e miez utschi
	Linard Bardill theologian poet singer/ songwriter comedian	Chur 1956-10-16	Nachtgesichte (lyrics, 1984); Fortunat Kauer (novel in both German and Rumantsch grischun, 1998); Das geheimnisvolle Buch. Aus dem Rucksack von Andri (story for children, 1998); Das gelbe Ding (illustrated story for children, 2001); Ro und die Windmaschine (youth novel, 2001); Ro und Gambrin (youth novel, 2002); Die Baumhütte Falkenburg (illustrated story for children, 2002); Ro Ramusch (youth novel, 2003); Beltrametti kann nicht schlafen (illustrated story for children, 2003); cabaret reviews, songs (since 1986)
	Leo Tuor student, shepherd, ecologist, editor and poet	Rabius, 1959	Giacumbert Nau (1988)
	Iso Camartin professor essayist writer		Nichts als Worte (essay, 1985); Ils descendent (1982); Die Bibliothek von Pila (1995)
	Claudia Cadruvi Pfeiffers		La recolta dals siemis (novel)
	Fabiola Carigiet		Cigns giu da tschiel
	Andry Dumenic satirist	Zurich 1960-05-07	Learning by doing (short story, don't expect an English text under this title, 1996); Rav. Adigl à Baschladitscha. Üna tasmuongia da temp veider (satire, 1996); Ardura locala (short story, 1998); Halali ? (short story, 2000); La grifla dal pictur (satire. 2000)


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