Fredrik Ekman (Sweden) non fiction, libretto
Fredrik Ekman is a writer and a librettist. Ekman has written several non-fiction books together with artist Magnus Bärtås. In 2011 they published All monster must die, which was shortlisted for the prestigious August Prize. Their latest collaboration was the Gabriele D’Annunzio biography The Annunciator. Ekman has also worked in the field of music drama and composed pieces for Radio France , WDR in Köln and The Swedish National Radio.
Marion Graf (Switzerland) translation, essay, critic
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Marion Graf is a recipient of the Gilbert Musy 2023 translation grant. During her residency at the Château de Lavigny, she will prepare the translation and editing of a selection of poems by Emmy Hennings Ball, and continue the translation of prose by Robert Walser and poems by Thilo Krause.
Tara Ison (USA) fiction
Tara Ison is the author of the novels A Child out of Alcatraz, The List, Rockaway, and the recent At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf; the short story collection Ball; and the essay collection Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies. Her short fiction and cnf have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies, including BOMB, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
Olivia Kuderewski (Germany) fiction
Olivia Kuderewski, born in 1989, studied comparative literature in Augsburg and Seville and creative writing in Hildesheim. She lives in Berlin and works as a freelance nonfiction editor, among other things. Her debut novel Luxwas awarded the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize for the best debut novel in German language in 2021. Her second novel Haha Heartbreak was published in 2022 and deals with female sexuality and modern relationships.
Christopher Linforth (UK) fiction
Christopher Linforth is the author of three story collections, The Distortions (Orison Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Orison Books Fiction Prize, Directory (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2020), and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone(Lamar University Press, 2014).
