FROM JUNE 7 TO JULY 4, 2022
Mathias Howald (Switzerland) fiction
Mathias Howald was born in Lausanne in 1979. He is the author of two novels, Hériter du silence (éditions d'autre part, 2018 - Prix du Public RTS 2019) and Cousu pour toi (forthcoming). He is part of the author collective Caractères mobiles with whom he wrote the book Au village (éditions d'autre part 2019). He was resident at the Jan Michalski Foundation, Montricher (2017), at the Cité des Arts, Paris (2019) and at the Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2020-2021).
This residency is supported by State of Vaud
Raluca Antonescu (Switzerland) fiction
Born in Bucharest in 1976, Raluca Antonescu arrived in Switzerland at the age of four.
After training at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, she worked in video and taught visual arts.
She has published three novels at the Editions de la Baconnière: L'inondation (2014), Sol (2017) and Inflorescence (2021).
Elena Balzamo (Russia/France) translation, non-fiction
PROGRAMME GILBERT MUSY - CTL UNIL
A specialist in Scandinavian and Russian literature, essayist, translator and literary critic, she directs a translation seminar at the Swedish Institute in Paris. She is the author of several books on Nordic literature, editions of folk tales and literary works, and numerous articles.
Stuart Dischell (USA) poetry
Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days, Children With Enemies, and the forthcoming The Lookout Man (March 2022). His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Louise Doughty (UK) fiction
Louise Doughty is the author of nine novels. Her most recent is Platform Seven (2019). The previous book, Black Water,(2016) was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year and the book before that was the bestseller Apple Tree Yard (2013), which has been published or is being translated into thirty languages and adapted into a highly successful television series starring Emily Watson.
Louise Doughty is a member of the Folio Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) from the University of East Anglia.
