Anne Cuneo is a Swiss journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.

She was born in Paris of Italian parents, but studied in Lausanne

Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

. Her first novel came in 1967 and was called Gravé au diamant. In 1979 she received the lesser prize of the Schweizerische Schillerstiftung and by 1987 she worked for Télévision Suisse Romande

Télévision Suisse Romande

Télévision Suisse Romande is a TV network with 2 channels: TSR 1 and TSR 2. They are the main French language channels in Switzerland, part of SRG SSR idée suisse...

  Her early works have been described as "darkly meditative to the point of being suicidal."

Filmography

• 1996 Francis Tregian, Gentleman et Musicien with Patrick Ayrton
• 1998 D'or et d'oubli Téléfilm
• 2006 Opération Shakespeare à la Vallée de Joux, documentary film
  Documentary film
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Awards

• 1969 - L'Anti-Prix de la Radio Suisse Romande
  Radio Suisse Romande
  Radio suisse romande is an enterprise unit within public-broadcasting corporation SRG SSR. It is responsible for the production and transmission of French-language radio programmes in Switzerland...
  
  
• 1979 - Schiller Award for her oeuvre
• 1981 - Prix culturel du Canton Zurich
• 1990 - Bibliomedia et Prix Alpes-Jura, for Station Victoria
• 1994 - Prix des Auditeurs de la Radio suisse romande
  Radio Suisse Romande
  Radio suisse romande is an enterprise unit within public-broadcasting corporation SRG SSR. It is responsible for the production and transmission of French-language radio programmes in Switzerland...
  
  
• 1994 - Prix de la Fondation vaudoise pour la Promotion artistique http://www.fvpca.ch/web/information.asp
• 1995 - Prix des Libraires et Prix litteraire "Madame Europe" for Le Trajet d'une rivière