Laurence Boissier (Switzerland) July 23 to August 19, 2019 - Fiction
Laurence Boissier is the author of numerous volumes of short texts including Cahier des charges (art & fiction, 2012), Inventaire des lieux (2016) and Safari (art & fiction, 2019). Boissier has also written the novel Rentrée des classes, art & fiction, 2018). She is part of the Bern ist Uberall collective of authors and musicians who practice “spoken word” arts. She lives in Geneva.
Katherine Brabon (Australia) August 20 to September 16, 2019 - Fiction
Katherine Brabon is a writer from Melbourne, Australia. Her debut novel The Memory Artist won the 2016 Vogel Literary Award. Katherine holds a Doctorate in writing and literature from Monash University and a Master's in history from the University of Oxford. She is also a regular contributor to Melbourne's Lindsay magazine.
Luciana Cisbani (Italy) July 23 to August 19, 2019 - Translation
Luciana Cisbani has been a translator for more than 25 years. Following her doctoral thesis on the subject of “argot”, she worked in publishing as a lexicographer for bi-lingual dictionaries and as an editor. Currently a professor of translation in Milan at the Civica Scuola Interpreti-Traduttori, and Italian at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Cisbani also leads workshops in French-Italian translation for professional translators.
Kamel Daoud (Algeria) August 20 to September 16, 2019 - Fiction, non-fiction
Kamel Daoud is a Francophone Algerian author and journalist. [or Kamel Daoud is an Algerian author and journalist who writes in French]. His novel Meursault contre-enquête (Barzakh, 2013), received the Prix Goncourt for First Novel (2015), his second novel, Zabor ou Les Psaumes (Barzakh, 2017), received the 2018 Prix Méditerranée. Since January 2019, he is the first writer to hold a newly created chair in creative writing at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris.
Volha Hapeyeva (Belarus) June 25 to July 22, 2019 - Poetry, fiction
Volha Hapeyeva is an award-winning Belarusian poet, writer, translator and linguist whose work has been translated into more than 10 languages. She has published five poetry collections, two children’s books and one book of prose, and collaborates with electronic musicians and visual artists to create audio-visual performances.
Mohamed Hashem (Egypt) June 25 to September 16, 2019 - Fiction
Mohamed Hashem is the founder of Merit Publishing House (one of the most important in the Arab world – the first to publish The Yacoubian Building). He received the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish award in 2006, and in 2011 the Herman Kesten Award from the German PEN. His first novel Open Playgrounds was published in 2004.
Verdan Husic (Bosnia and Herzegovina/USA) May 28 to June 24, 2019 - Fiction
Verdan Husic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vedran Husić was raised in Germany and the US. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award in 2018. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gertraud Klemm (Austria) May 28 to June 24, 2019 - Fiction
Gertraud Klemm was born 1971 in Vienna. Worked as a biologist before she started writing. Several literary prizes (e.g. Public’s Choice Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann competition 2014, shortlist European Union Prize for Literature 2015) and scholarships. Recent books: Hippocampus (Kremayr & Scheriau, 2019), Erbsenzählen (Droschl, 2017).
Yulia Latynina (Russia) June 25 to September 16, 2019 - Fiction, non-fiction
Yulia Latynina is a writer and journalist, a fierce critic of Putin’s regime. She had to flee Russia but continues to host her program on the last independent and influential station, Radio Echo of Moscow. A columnist for a major opposition newspaper, she is the author of some 20 best-selling books, and has received many awards, including from Germany, Italy and the USA.
T.D. Mitchell (USA) June 25 to July 22, 2019 - Theater
T.D. Mitchell is a playwright, screenwriter and speechwriter. Her work is deep-research-based, tackling large, intersectional issues including those of gender, cultural dissonance, moral injury and military aggression, but through intimate, often familial contexts. Currently, she is working on a play about American feminist identity in the face of the Syrian refugee crisis.
Jean-Baptiste Para (France) May 28 to June 24, 2019 - Translation, poetry - Program Gilbert Musy
Jean-Baptiste Para, born in 1956, is a poet, art critic and editor of the journal Littéraire Europe. He received the Prix Apollinaire for his collection, La Faim des ombres (2006). He has also received numerous literary prizes for his translations of Italian and Russian poetry.J
Alexandre Pateau (France) April 29 - 26 May, 2019 - German translation
Alexandre Pateau translates German- and English-speaking authors for various French and Swiss publishing houses, as well as for the daily newspaper Libération. He regularly organizes translation workshops and meetings with the writers he has helped to (re)discover in French, including Peter Bichsel, Carolin Emcke and Jan Wagner.
Inese Peterson (Letonia) April 29 - 26 May, 2019 - French translation
Inese Pētersone has translated more than fifty novels, plays, and comic books, including works by Roland Buti, Jacques de Decker, Jacqueline Harpman, Hergé, Gaston Leroux, Patrick Modiano, Alfred de Musset, Amélie Nothomb, and Françoise Sagan. She has also published translations of The Truth About Harry Quebert and The Baltimore Book by Joël Dicker. Inese Pētersone was awarded the Translation Prize of the French Community of Belgium in 2009. She was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres de la République Française in 2016.
Petruta Spanu (Romania) from April 29 to May 26, 2019 - Translations by French-speaking writers.Petruţa Spânu is Honorary Professor of French and Belgian Francophone Literature at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iaşi and Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. An author of literary criticism and history, she has translated into Romanian more than seventy books from French, Belgian, Swiss and Polish literature, including works by Corinna Bille, Alain Corbin, Camille Lemonnier, Marcel Pagnol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Catherine Safonoff. She has received several awards, including the Translation Prize from the French Community of Belgium in 2005 and the Maurice Carême Prize in 2015.
Yvonne Reddick (Switzerland/UK) May 28 to June 24, 2019 - Translation, poetry
Yvonne Reddick is the author of Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Translating Mountains. She has received a Northern Writer’s Award, among other prizes and commendations. Her poetry pamphlet Spikenard is a Laureate’s Choice 2019. She has translated Maurice Chappaz and Philippe Jaccottet into English.
Andrea Spingler (Germany) April 29 - 26 May, 2019 - French translation
Andrea Spingler has been translating French literature into German for forty years. Her impressive body of work includes both classics and contemporary works. Thanks to her, German speakers can read, among others, novels by Albert Cohen, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, Agota Kristof, Ella Maillart, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Paul Sartre as well as by Agnès Desarthe, Maylis de Kerangal, Amin Maalouf. Since 2002, she has published five translations of novels by Pascale Kramer, winner of the 2017 Swiss Grand Prize for Literature. Andrea Spingler received the Eugen-Helmlé translation prize in 2007 and the Prix lémanique de la traduction in 2012.
Peter Stamm (Switzerland) June 10 to June 24, 2019 - Fiction
Peter Stamm is the author of seven novels, four short-story collections and many plays and radioplays. His books have been translated into almost forty languages. He lives with his family in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Julien Thèves (France) July 23 to August 19, 2019 - Theater, fiction
Julien Thèves received the Marguerite-Duras Prize for his Le Pays d’où l’on ne revient jamais (Christophe Lucquin Éditeur). His work has been broadcast on France Culture, adapted for film, and published in literary journals. He is also the author of Précarité et Son histoire, which appeared in 1999 and 2000 (Balland)., parus en 1999 et 2000 aux éditions Balland.
Micha Venaille (France) June 25 to July 22, 2019 - Translation
In her translation work, Micha Venaille enters into an intimate dialogue with books and their authors as she carries texts over into another language. Her choice of translations from English reflect authors she is passionate about: Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, the extraordinarily Leonard Woolf’s autobiography and The Letter of Virginia Woolf.
Marek Zagańczyk (Poland) May 28 to June 10, 2019 - Non-fiction
His new book is a stroll in the company of writers, kindred spirits engaged in an eternal conversation on life and literature. Among his guides are Gregor von Rezzori, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Sybille Bedford, Bruce Chatwin and Annemarie Schwarzenbach. This portrait gallery, with the dark north and the bright sun of the Mediterranean both present, will tell a story about writers who travelled across Europe, trying to absorb its spiritual wisdom.
Gabriella Zalapi (Switzerland/Italy/UK) August 20 to September 16, 2019 - Fiction
Gabriella Zalapì is an artist who probes the construction of identity and the role played by memory in its process. She uses material such as family photographs, archive images, and administrative documents as integral sources in her writings, paintings and drawings. Her novel Antonia. Journal 1965-1966 was published to critical acclaim (Zoé, 2019).
