Born in 1988, Bruno Pellegrino lives in Lausanne. Winner of the Prix du jeune écrivain for his short story L'idiot du village (Buchet/Chastel, 2011), he has published four books with Éditions Zoé: Comme Atlas (2015), Là-bas, août est un mois d'automne (2018), which won the Prix des Libraires Payot and the Prix Écritures & Spiritualités), Dans la ville provisoire (2021, Prix Michel-Dentan and Prix Paysages écrits) and Tortues (2023). Bruno Pellegrino was active for ten years in the AJAR collective, author of Vivre près des tilleuls (Flammarion, 2016). Also with Zoé, he co-wrote the two seasons of the Stand-by literary series (2018 and 2019), as well as a "station novel", Terre-des-Fins (2022).
This residency is supported by the Foundation Ulricht and by Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz