July 22 to August 18, 2025
Suo Er (China) Fiction
Suo Er 索耳 is the author of the novel 伐木之夜 [The Night of the Felling] and the story collection 非亲非故 [Noncorrelation]. His works have appeared in China’s top literary magazines and received many awards, the 43rd Hong Kong Youth Literary Award and a 2021 nomination as Most Promising Newcomer of the Year by the Southern Literature Festival among them. He has also engaged in publishing, media, and exhibition work. His writing concerns itself with the dispersion of cultures, and with lives of individuals in a “Southern framework. He is based in Guangzhou.
This residency is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Shanghai
Adrien Rupp (Switzerland) Fiction, drama, film
Adrien Rupp is an artist from Lausanne, trained at la Haute Ecole des arts scéniques Lausanne La Manufacture. Actor, director and screenwriter, several of his texts have been produced in theaters and published in literary magazines. His first novel Le cambrioleur was published by La Veilleuse in 2023 under the pen name Gé du Jeudi.
This residency is supported by State of Vaud
Naomi Schenck (USA/Germany) Non-fiction, fiction
Naomi Schenck, born in 1970 in Santa Monica (USA), grew up in Malhlheim/Ruhr, and today lives in Berlin and New York. She studied painting and set design at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf. She works as a set designer for film and television, as well as an interior decorator. She writes regularly for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She has published numerous short stories and a memoir about her family's history Mein Großvater stand am Fenster und trank Tee Nr.12 (Hanser Berlin Verlag)
This residency is supported by the Francis J. Greenburger Family Foundation
Rahul Soni (India) Translation
Rahul Soni is a writer, editor, and translator. He has edited the anthology of Hindi poetry in English translation ‘Home From a Distance’, and translated Shrikant Verma’s book of poems ‘Magadh’, Geetanjali Shree’s novel ‘The Roof Beneath their Feet’, a selection of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poetry ‘A Name for Every Leaf’, and Pankaj Kapur’s novella ‘Dopehri’. He is currently Associate Publisher, Literary, with HarperCollins India.
