Swiss Women have been spies, activists, entrepreneurs, artists, and so much more. They have stood up to tyrants, they have dared to be different, and they have demanded to be heard. They have sung and danced and made people laugh and cry. They have travelled the entire globe. They have changed Switzerland and the world.
For the first time, you can meet fifty of these women in one inspiring book. These pages include amazing Swiss women, past and present, from many different backgrounds. Their diverse accomplishments prove that Swiss women can do anything!
Read their stories. Get inspired. Be amazing, too.
Published on 7 February 2021, the fifty-year anniversary of Swiss women’s right to vote.
Available in English, German and French.
The Creative Team
Laurie Theurer was born and raised in California. She left to serve two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, and then moved to Switzerland a short time later.
Her first book, Swisstory: The Untold, Bloody, and Absolutely Real History of Switzerland was awarded the 2020 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. She’s published lots of flash fiction, several picture books, and is now focusing on non-fiction.
Laurie lives near Zurich and is represented by The Seymour Agency.
http://www.laurietheurer.com
Katie Hayoz was born in the USA but has lived half her life in Switzerland. She writes for adults, teens, and kids under different names.
She’s published picture books and novels and has written video scripts for the international market. Her essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and online.
Katie loves reading, writing, and painting. She also loves fuzzy animals, buttered popcorn, and always being right.
http://www.katiehayoz.com
Anita Lehmann is the award-winning author of books for both children and adults, with her picture book Slobber Slobber Kiss Kiss shortlisted for the German Children’s Literature Prize 2020.
Born and raised in Bern, Switzerland, and with an MA in Economic and Social History from the University of Geneva, Anita has lived, studied, and worked in many different places before making Cambridge, UK home for herself and her family.
She loves English tea and misses Swiss chocolate.
http://www.anita-lehmann.com
Alnaaze Nathoo grew up in Calgary, Canada, and after living in Geneva and Vaud, adventurously crossed the Barrière de Rösti to live in Zurich. By day she works in humanitarian aid, and by night she writes stories and essays, looking for inspiration everywhere.
Basic Training, her short story published in Quail Bell Magazine, was inspired by a fearless pigeon who blocked traffic and made her late for work.
She loves travelling, peanut butter and naps, though not necessarily at the same time.
Barbara Nigg is from Calgary, Canada, but has lived in Switzerland for ages and calls it home.
She loves reading ghost stories, eating M&Ms and teaching Fagur, her Icelandic horse, fun tricks, like how to play football.
Barbara is a copywriter and wrote the first-ever history of biomechanics for a best-selling university textbook.
http://www.barbaranigg.com
Mireille Lachausse is the illustrator of the 50 Amazing Swiss series and author/illustrator of Kira and Kooki, a comic for Kaleio magazine.
After an artistic residency in Genoa awarded to the comic book association Splotch, she published the graphic novel Bleu de Genes. In 2017, she was selected as one of ten artists in Adobe’s Hidden Treasures of Creativity competition, which resulted in an exhibition in the Munch Museum, Oslo.
Mireille studied illustration & comics at EPAC in Saxon. She lives in Aigle, Switzerland.
http://www.milapictures.com
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