Asa Lanova

Asa Lanova was born in Switzerland, spending her youth in Lausanne. At 17, she went to Paris to study dance where she performed with dancers such as Maurice Béjart. She returned to Switzerland in 1956, performing at the Zürich Opera House and the Grand Théâtre de Genève.{{cite news|url=https://www.arcinfo.ch/articles/lifestyle/sortir/carnet-noir-la-danseuse-et-ecrivaine-vaudoise-asa-lanova-est-decedee-725532|title= La danseuse et écrivaine vaudoise Asa Lanova est décédée|work=ArcInfo|date=28 December 2017|access-date=2 January 2018}}

After leaving her dance career, Lanova began to write novels, publishing her first, La dernière migration, in 1977. After switching to a different publisher, Bernard Campiche, Lanova received recognition for her work, winning prizes for both Le Blues d'Alexandrie and La Gazelle tartare.

In 1965, she married fellow dancer Philippe Dahlmann.{{cite web|url=https://www.24heures.ch/culture/asa-lanova-partie-etoiles/story/28063237|title=Asa Lanova est partie dans les étoiles|first=Jean Pierre|last=Pastori|date=27 December 2017|access-date=27 December 2017|via=24 heures}} Lanova died at her home in Pully on 26 December 2017.

• 2009 - Prix culturel vaudois Littérature for her literary work.{{cite web |url=https://www.bicweb.vd.ch/communique.aspx?pObjectID=328216 |title=Prix 2009 de la Fondation vaudoise pour la Culture |date=24 November 2009 |access-date=2018-01-04 |publisher=Canton of Vaud |archive-date=2018-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105123052/https://www.bicweb.vd.ch/communique.aspx?pObjectID=328216 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.fvpc.ch/cms/les-laureats/2009/11-palmares-2009/155-asa-lanova-ecrivaine |title=Asa Lanova, écrivaine |access-date=2018-01-04 |publisher=La Fondation vaudoise pour la culture }}
• 2005 - 5,000 SFr Schiller Prize for La Gazelle tartare.{{cite web|title=Preise der Schweizerischen Schillerstiftung 1908 - 2012|url=http://www.schillerstiftung.ch/downloads/Preistraeger%201908-2012%20alphabetisch.pdf|publisher=S C H W E I Z E R I S C H E Schweizerische Schilerstifftung|access-date=2018-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530002928/http://www.schillerstiftung.ch/downloads/Preistraeger%201908-2012%20alphabetisch.pdf|archive-date=2014-05-30|url-status=dead}}
• 1999 - Prix Bibliothèque pour Tous (BPT) (now Prix Bibliomedia Suisse) for Le Blues d'Alexandrie.{{cite book |editor=Susan Leckey |title=The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes |year=2015 |publisher=Routledge |pages=272–273 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2JhACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272 |isbn=9781135356323 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bibliomedia.ch/fr/prix_bibliomedia/laureats_prix_bibliomedia.asp |title=Lauréats du prix Bibliomedia Suisse |access-date=2018-01-03 |publisher=Bibliomedia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104013911/http://www.bibliomedia.ch/fr/prix_bibliomedia/laureats_prix_bibliomedia.asp |archive-date=2018-01-04 |url-status=dead }}

• La dernière migration, Paris, Régine Deforges, 1977
• Crève l'amour, Paris, éditions Acropole, 1984; Orbe, Bernard Campiche éditeur, {{abbr|coll.|collection}} « CamPoche», 2006
• Le cœur tatoué, Paris, éditions Mazarine, 1988
• L'étalon de ténèbre, Paris, Régine Deforges, 1991; Vevey, Éditions de l'Aire, 1999
• Le testament d'une mante religieuse, Vevey, éditions de l'Aire, 1995
• Le blues d'Alexandrie Orbe, Bernard Campiche éditeur, 1998
• Les jardins de Shalalatt Orbe, Bernard Campiche éditeur, 2001
• La Gazelle tartare, Orbe, Bernard Campiche éditeur, 2004
• La nuit du destin, Orbe, Bernard Campiche éditeur, 2007
• Les heures nues, Orbe, Bernard Campiche éditeur, 2011 {{ISBN|978-2-88241-286-7}}

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