TRANSLATORS IN RESIDENCE LOOREN IN LAVIGNY OCTOBER 2021
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS - October 10, 2021
Rosie Pinhas Delpuech (france - turquie), Sika Fakambi (France - Bénin), Asghar Nouri (IRAN), REGINA LÓPEZ MUÑOZ (ESPAGNE), BOJAN SAVIĆ OSTOJIĆ (SERBIE),
Rosie Pinhas Delpuech (France-Turkey), laureate of the Gilbert Musy 2021 program. She is a Hebrew translator and during her residency she translated, among others, the novel "Muck" by the Israeli author Dror Burstein.
Sika Fakambi (France-Benin) presents and reads from her translation into French of Australian novelist Gail Jones’ book “Sixty lights”.
Asghar Nouri (Iran) presents and reads from his translation into persian of the Swiss writer Jérôme Meizoz’s novels “Absolument moderne!” and “Séisme” (Editions Zoé) .
Regina López Muñoz (Spain) is presenting and reading from her translation into spanish of the French writer Céline Curiol’s novel “Les lois de l’ascension” (Actes Sud)
Bojan Savić Ostojić (Serbia) is presenting and reading from his translation into serbian of the Swiss writer Agota Kristof ‘s novel “L’ analphabète” (Editions Zoé)
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE SEPTEMBER 2021
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS - September 19, 2021
ADRIEN GYGAX (switzerland), rosie pinhas delpuech (france), celine zufferey (switzerland)
Adrien Gygax reads from his second novel “Se réjouir de la fin” (Grasset 2020).
Rosie Pinhas Delpuech reads from her new novel “Le Typographe de Whitechapel” (Actes Sud 2021) and an essay published by the French newspaper Libération for its Summer series “Where do you write from?”.
Céline Zufferey reads an extract from her novel in progress in Château de Lavigny.
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE AUGUST 2021
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS - August 22, 2021
Claudine Galea (France), heather Hartley (USA), Matthieu Ruf (Switzerland)
Claudine Galea reads an except from her new novel - work in progress - she’s writing in Château de Lavigny
Heather Hartley reads few poems from her collections “Adult Swim” and “Knock Knock”
Matthieu Ruf reads an excerpt of his new novel - work in progress - he’s writing in Château de Lavigny
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE JULY 2021
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS - July 25 2021
IVA BDAR (SERBIA), EZZ DARWIESH (EGYPT), TAREQ SAMIN (BANGLADESH), FELICIA YAP (MALAYSIA)
Iva Bdar reads an extract of her last play translated into English "And If I Don't Behave, Then what"
Erz Darwiesh reads two excerpts from his last text “Timeless” written directly in English, composed of 14 parts, about his trauma after the revolution in Egypt.
Tareq Samin reads some of his poems written in Bengali language and translated into English
Felicia Yap presents her two novels and reads from the last one “Futur Perfect” (2021 Wildfire)
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE JUNE 2021
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS - June 20 2021
BETH ANN FENNELLY (USA), ANTOINE JACCOUD (Switzerland), CARSTEN JENSEN (DEnMARK), REIN RAUD (ESTONIA), SHPETIM SELMANI (KOSOVO)
Beth Ann Fennelly reads from her last book “Heating and Cooling, 52 Micro-Memoirs” (W.W. Norton) and presents few other poems.
Antoine Jaccoud presents his work in French and reads different excerpts of it, some old some recent.
Carsten Jensen presents his novel “Vi, De Druknede” (Gyldendal) in English “We, The drowned” (Vintage) and reads an excerpt of it.
Rein Raud presents and reads an excerpt from his novel “The death of the perfect sentence” a story of love and spycraft set in Estonia during the last moments of Soviet power.
Shpëtim Selmani reads a poem written directly in English at the Château de Lavigny, an older poem, as well as an excerpt from his joint writing project with Antoine Jaccoud. Then Antoine Jaccoud also reads an excerpt from a text written as part of this project.
TRANSLATORS IN RESIDENCE MAY 2021
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS - May 27 2021
Lydia dimitrow (GERMANY), anna Kove (albaniA), Zorana Rackov (SERBIA), irina talevska (NORTH MACEDONIA), amalija vitezovic (serbiA)
Lydia Dimitrow Translation French > German.
She’s presenting her translation of the novel “Après le monde” (Qui Vive-Buchet/Chastel 2020) by the Swiss French speaking writer Antoinette Rychner.
Anna Kove. Translator German > Albanien.
She’s presenting her translation of the novel “Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt” by the Swiss German writer Peter Stamm (S. Fischer Verlag).
Zorana Rackov. Translator French > Serbian.
She’s presenting her translation of the novel “Hériter du silence” by the Swiss French speaking writer Mathias Howald (Editions d’autre part, 2018).
Irina Talevska. Translator Italian > Macedonian.
She’s presenting her translation of the novel “I beati anni del castigo” ( Edizioni Adelphi) by the Swiss Italian speaking writer Fleur Jaeggy
Amalija Vitezovic. Translator French > Serbian.
She is presenting her translation of the novel “Grand National” (Editions Zoé) by the Swiss French speaking writer Roland Buti.
