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Eugène, the inimitable storyteller13 reading minutes

par Ivan Garcia
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Eugène, Lausanne, November 2022 © Indra Crittin for Le Regard Libre

Following the publication of his new award-winning book, Letter to my dictator, Eugène, the Swiss writer, was invited to join us for a conversation about him, based on memory and humor. Meet a funny storyteller.

A cold morning last November, on the terrace of the Café de Grancy, in Lausanne. We wanted to ask Eugène, the author of Lettre à mon dictateur (Slatkine, 2022), why the place he had chosen for our meeting was «an important place in [his] family history», but we were caught by the waiter (who told us we had to order from the bar). So, after asking for three coffees, three croissants and three glasses of water, our trinity (the writer, the photographer and the journalist) settle down to listen to the anecdote.

«In 1974, my parents moved to La

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