Dans «Nani», son nouveau récit, la Fribourgeoise d’adoption décrit le quotidien d’une Albanaise victime de violences conjugales. Echange avec l’auteure au sujet de son rapport à la famille, aux individus… et à l’écriture, qui se conçoit chez elle comme une nécessité.
New year, new projects. After the first novel «Le retour» by young Swiss author Elliot Mazzella, due to be published by Editions de l'Aire later this year, these columns welcome André Durussel's new opus.
An imaginary country town nestled among the Swiss hills is home to a tribe of people who do nothing like the others. This is the setting for L'habit fait le moine and other short stories, by one of the most widely read authors of the 19th century: Gottfried Keller.
A cathedral book, rich in flashes of inspiration, the latest novel by 31-year-old Swiss author Romain Debluë is the pride and joy of publisher Michel Moret, who has published works by Jacques Chessex and Corinna Bille. It follows the arrival in Paris of a young Swiss student.
Five years after the translation of his previous novel, Peter Stamm returned to the literary scene this spring. This was the occasion for an interview in Morges, in the orientalist setting of the authors' space at the festival Le Livre sur les quais.
Between humor and tenderness, Peter Stamm has produced a singular, intensely human novel, polished by the memory of love and the anxiety of living in a world that is changing too fast.
Payot CEO Pascal Vandenberghe is also president of the new Florides Helvètes association. He explains his mission: to promote Switzerland's literary heritage through the «Poche Suisse» collection, acquired from Editions L'Age d'Homme.
Un premier roman d'une virtuosité remarquable.
Roman crépusculaire sous fond de Sardou
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