The track naming is governed by the Regulation on geographical names and addressing of buildings (L 1 10.06).
Municipal authorities are responsible for making naming proposals for roads in their territory. These proposals are then studied by the Cantonal Nomenclature Commission (CCN) which makes a recommendation to the Council of State, which makes the final decision.
In this context, it is proposed to name the green space mentioned above: “Georges-HALDAS Garden”. This name will honor this Genevan writer and poet in the immediate vicinity of his main place of life, the Boulevard des Philosophes.
Georges-HALDAS (1917-2010)
Born on August 14, 1917 in Geneva (to a Greek father and a Swiss mother), Georges Haldas lived until the age of 9 in Kefalonia (Greece) then lived, for most of his life, in Geneva, at Boulevard des Philosophes. It was also in Geneva that he studied literature, before working for Rencontre editions. Very early politically involved, he first became known as a poet and it is in this capacity that he will attempt to identify the very essence of poetic creation in several volumes brought together under the general title The Confession of a seed (6 volumes from 1983 to 2003) and under that of The State of Poetry (14 volumes).
Georges Haldas is also an essayist and translator (Schiller Prize 1971 and 1977, Grand Prix de la ville de Genève 1971, Taormina Prize 1970). His chronicles Boulevard des Philosophes (1966) and Chronique de la rue Saint-Ours (1973) resurrect the time of childhood. Others, like La Légende des cafés (1976), evoke the problems of daily life in the working-class neighborhoods of Geneva. His work, notably recognized by the Prix de la ville de Genève (1971) and the Grand Prix CF Ramuz (1985), includes more than 80 titles. He died on October 24, 2010 in Mont-sur-Lausanne. Two commemorative plaques honor his memory; one on the “Petite Fontaine”, in Mont-sur-Lausanne installed in 2007 and the other installed in 2018 at Boulevard des Philosophes 7, in Geneva.
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