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Gabrielle Alioth was born 1955 in Basel, Switzerland, and having studied economics (M.E.) and the history of art worked in econometric forecasting and Operations Research before emigrating to Ireland in 1984.

Her first novel Der Narr (The Fool) was published 1990. It received the Hamburg literary award for best first novel and was also broadcast as a radio play. Her seventh and most recent novel „The Bride from Byzantium„ appeared in 2008.

Books for children: Das magische Licht (The Magic Light) 2001, Im Tal der Schatten (In the Valley of the Shadows) 2002, Ach wie gut dass, niemand weiss (Ha, glad am I that no one knew ...), ed. 2004. Travel books: Irland - eine Reise durchs Land der Regenbogen (Ireland – A Journey through the Land of the Rainbows) 2003, Irland - mit Nordirland (Ireland – with Northern Ireland) with photos by Max Schmid, 2004. Book of portraits: Mitgeteilt – 24 Lebensgeschichten von Frauen aus Basel-Stadt und Baselland (Noted – The Life Stories of 24 Women from Basel City and Country), 2008.

Extensive reading tours in Europe, India, Canada and the United States. Member of the Irish delegation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1996 and member of the Swiss delegation in 1998. Swiss writer in residence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1997.

Guest lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 2002. 2005/6: Writer in residence at University College Dublin. Since 2004 lecturer at the Lucerne School of Art and Desgin. Member of the Judging Panel of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.

She jointly produced hour long radio features over the last years ranged in topic from Shetland to James Joyce and the contemporary literature of Newfoundland. Member of the PEN Centre of German Speaking Writers Abroad and the AdS - Autoren der Schweiz.