Who am I?
I am a Swiss poet and author born in Lausanne on April 16, 1956. I attended primary school in the small village of Penthalaz, not far from Lausanne. From the age of ten, I attended the Villamont secondary school in Lausanne, then the Gymnase de la Cité (high school) from 1972 to 1974, the year I passed my baccalaureate in the Latin-Greek section. After two semesters at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne, I enrolled in the Faculty of Theology, in 1975, at the same university. I obtained my Bachelor of Theology in 1980.
The decisive meeting with Georges Haldas (1917-2010) in September 1979, and the interviews that followed, encouraged me to devote myself to poetry.
Having settled in Zurich since October 1979, I began a teaching career in a high school in the spring of 1982, after working as a sommelier for a year and then completing a six-month internship as a prison chaplain. From 1983 to 1993, alongside my teaching work, I continued my studies in literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich. I obtained my Bachelor of Arts in 1993, then the Teaching Diploma in 1997.
In 1986, I married Anne-Marie Haddad, born in Beirut.
Travels to Egypt, Lebanon, Japan…