Amilcar Bettega (Brazil) fiction, translation
Pro Helvetia Fellowship
Amilcar Bettega is the author of five books, including three collections of short stories, one of prose and a novel. His books and short stories, published in a dozen countries, have received several important awards in Brazil. As a translator, he has translated, among others, a collection of 125 short stories by Guy de Maupassant. He was a resident of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA, in 2010 and has taught at universities in France, China and Brazil.
This residency is supported by Pro Helvetia
Ibrahima Aya (Mali) fiction
Pro Helvetia Fellowship
A native of the Timbuktu region in Mali, Ibrahima Aya is a writer and editor. Co-founder of Editions Tombouctou, he lives in Bamako. He has notably published Les larmes de Djoliba, Les âniers de la Casbah, Querelle autour d’un âge, Rires et pleurs des orphelins. He has also participated in or co-edited the writing of several collective works including: Voix hautes pour Tombouctou, Le Mali entre doutes et espoirs, Le Mali contemporain.Le pays des éclipses, published in 2021, is his latest work. He is the co-founder and director of the "Rentrée littéraire du Mali", the literary event of reference in Mali, created in 2008.
This residency is supported by Pro Helvetia
Chloé Falcy (Switzerland) fiction
State of Vaud Fellowship
Born in 1991, Chloé Falcy grew up in Gimel, in the middle of the Vaud countryside and books. She is notably the author of the novel Balkis, winner of the 2017 Chênois Literary Prize and finalist for the 2018 Prix des 5 continents de la francophonie. She has a degree in English and Italian from the University of Lausanne, and works for Éditions Loisirs et Pédagogie in addition to her literary activities.
She was awarded a residency at the Château de Lavigny as the winner of the writing grant from the State of Vaud 2022 for Une mer dans le ventre, the story of her pregnancy during the pandemic.
This residency is supported by Canton de Vaud
Florin Irimia (Romania) fiction
Florin Irimia (b. 1976) is a Romanian writer. He has published three novels: Defekt, Brumar, 2011, winner of the First Novel Festival of Chambéry (Festival du Premier Roman, Chambéry) in 2013 (Bulgarian translation 2017), O fereastră întunecată/A Darkened Window, Polirom, 2012 (Turkish translation, 2015), Câteva lucruri despre tine/A Few Things about You, Polirom 2014, and two volumes of interlinked short-stories (or indirect novels) about personal memory and trauma: Misterul mașinuțelor chinezești/The Mystery of the Chinese Toy Cars, Polirom 2017 (Hungarian translation, 2022), and Bărbatul din spatele ceții,/The Man From Behind the Fog, Polirom, 2021. He has also published short stories in various literary magazines such as, Dacia literară, Familia, Iocan, Observator cultural, Timpul and in translation in Elȍretolt Helyȍrség, Hévíz, Helikon, Irodalmi Jelen, Látó, S.p.r.i.t.Z, Specimen: The Babel Review of Translations, and Székelyföld. He lives in Iași, Romania with his wife.
László Végel (Serbia- Hungarian speaking) fiction, non fiction, theater
Végel's parents belonged to the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina (autonomous province in Serbia). Végel studied philosophy in Novi Sad and Belgrade, then worked as a journalist, among others as editor of the Hungarian-language daily Magyar Szó and, from 1965 to 1971, as co-editor of the Hungarian-language monthly and literary magazine Új Symposion. As a dramatist for the Novi Sad Television and the Subotica People's Theatre, he wrote several scripts and plays. At the same time, he wrote novels and essays, which were sometimes published in their Serbo-Croatian translation even before the original Hungarian version was published. Végel published his first epic work in 1967, Egy makró emlékiratai (The Great Writings of Memory), which was translated into Serbian by Alexander Tisma. From 1994 to 2001, when it was closed, Végel was the head of the Soros Foundation office in Novi Sad. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Helsinki Committee in Belgrade.
THIS RESIDENCY IS SUPPORTED BY S. FISCHER STIFTUNG
