Louise Fatio
{{short description|American writer}}
Louise Emma Fatio Duvoisin (August 18, 1904 – July 26, 1993) was a Swiss-born American writer of children's books. Many were created in collaboration with her husband Roger Duvoisin, a Swiss-born illustrator, and she is known best for their picture book series Happy Lion. The Happy Lion (1954), first in the series, won the inaugural, 1956 {{lang|de|Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis}} in its German-language translation ({{lang|de|Der glückliche Löwe}}).
Background
Fatio was born August 18, 1904, in Lausanne, Switzerland, and educated in Geneva. She emigrated to the United States in 1925 and became a naturalized citizen in 1938.
Fatio's earliest work in the U.S. Library of Congress catalog is The Christmas forest, a 48-page book illustrated by Duvoisin, with a 1950 copyright date.[http://lccn.loc.gov/50009631 "The Christmas forest"]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-07-16. It was published by Aladdin Paperbacks no earlier than 1967, perhaps earlier in hardcover. Her first book published was The Happy Lion in 1954.
A resident of Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey and then Chester Township, New Jersey, Fatio died on July 26, 1993, at the age of 89 at a nursing home in Somerset, New Jersey.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-news-obituary-for-louise-fat/122524257/ "Louise Fatio Duvoisin, children's book author"], Courier News, July 28, 1993. Accessed April 8, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Louise Emma Fatio Duvoisin, 89, an award-winning author of children's books and stories, died Monday (July 26, 1993) at King James Convalescent Center in the Somerset section of Franklin.... She lived in Peapack-Gladstone before moving to Chester."
References
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{{Cite web |url=http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv59179 |title= Guide to the Roger Duvoisin and Louise Fatio Papers 1934-1968 |accessdate= 2010-03-03 |year= 2006 |publisher= North West Digital Archives }}
[http://www.djlp.jugendliteratur.org/archiv_datenbanksuche-26.html?suche=53102 "(Preisjahr=1956, all listings)"]. Datenbanksuche (database search). Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur (jugendliteratur.org). Retrieved 2013-07-16. For general information select "Infos zum Preis" or "English key facts".
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External links
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- [http://d-nb.info/gnd/105531502 Louise Fatio] in the German National Library (DNB)
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Category:American children's writers
Category:People from Chester Township, New Jersey
Category:People from Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey
Category:Swiss emigrants to the United States
Category:Writers from Morris County, New Jersey
Category:Writers from Somerset County, New Jersey
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