José-Flore Tappy, born in Lausanne in 1954, is the author of five volumes of poetry: Errer mortelle (Payot, 1983), Pierre à feu (Empreintes, 1987), Terre battue (Empreintes, 1995), Lunaires (La Dogana, 2001), and Hangars (Empreintes, 2006). Terre battue and Lunaires appeared as a single paperback volume in 2005. She has won the Ramuz Prize and the Schiller Prize for her poetry. She works as an editor and scholar at the Centre de Recherches sur les Lettres Romandes at the University of Lausanne.
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