Amélie Plume  Amélie Plume is a Swiss writer born in 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. She carried out her study of letters and ethnology at the Université de Neuchâtel. She voyaged to Africa, Israel and New York City where she taught French and began to write and paint. Returning to Switzerland, she opened a creative workshop for painting after having learned in Paris. She later devoted herself to writing. She received the Prix Schiller in 1988 for the totality of her work.