FROM JULY 5 TO AUGUST 1, 2022
Jennifer Grosz (USA) poetry
Jennifer Grotz is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Window Left Open, and translator of three books from the French and Polish, most recently Everything I Don’t Know, the selected poems of Jerzy Ficowski, co-translated with Piotr Sommer. She teaches at the University of Rochester and directs the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences.
This residency is supported by the Foundation Jan Michalski
Amira Géhanne Khalfallah (Algeria) theatre, fiction, film
Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah was born in Algeria and has lived in Morocco since 2007. She graduated in cellular and molecular biology and became a journalist in 2001. She has written numerous plays for theatre performed in Africa and Europe. Le naufrage de La Lune is her first novel published by Barzakh (Alger-2018). She has also written and directed two short films.
This residency is supported by Artlink SudFundsKultur
Anton Krueger (South Africa) fiction, theatre
Pro Helvetia Johannesburg Fellowship
Anton Krueger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at Rhodes University, where he teaches performance studies and creative writing. He’s written numerous books in many genres; including memoir, criticism, short stories, poetry and plays. He’s the recipient of numerous awards for his writings, and is also an accomplished improviser, most recently performing in Fearless Flow at the National Arts Festival of South Africa in 2021.
This residency is supported by Pro Helvetia
Laurence Nobécourt (France) fiction, theatre, poetry
Laurence Nobécourt was born in Paris in 1968. Her first book, La Démangeaison, was published in 1994 under the pen name Lorette Nobécourt. She went on to publish novels, stories, poetry, and theater, first under the pen name Lorette Nobécourt, then, since 2016, under her real identity.
She left Paris in 2007 for the Drôme region in South of France where she teaches - through her writing workshops - the Way of the Word, which she conceived as an initiatory relationship to writing.
This residency is supported by the Foundation Jan Michalski
Anne-Sophie Subilia (Switzerland) fiction, poetry
Swiss and Belgian, Anne-Sophie Subilia lives in Lausanne where she was born in 1982. She studied French literature and history at the University of Geneva. She has a degree in literary writing from the Bern University of the Arts and leads writing workshops. She is the author of abrase (Empreintes, 2021, Pro Helvetia grant), Neiges intérieures (Zoé, 2020), Les hôtes (Paulette éditrice, 2018), Qui-vive (Paulette éditrice, 2016), Parti voir les bêtes (Zoé, 2016, Arthaud poche 2018, Leenaards grant) and Jours d'agrumes (L'Aire, 2013, ADELF-AMOPA prize 2014).
In 2022, her new novel will be published by Zoé.
This residency is supported by State of Vaud
