French flash mobs to take the internet by storm: French Book Week is announced, 13-17 July 2020 Literally Swiss, the…
French Book Week
Join us for a session on Swiss Publishing and Literature in Translation: Switzerland has four official languages with publishers operating…
Myriam Lang is responsible for the exhibition management, promotion at the Swiss Association of Booksellers and Publishers (SBVV). Please give…
Ulysse Roche is sharing his findings on French literature publishing in the UK as part of the “Publishing Day” of…
Poem by Cléa Chopard Translated by the Author Photo of Cléa Chopard by Tristan Chopard
The rigid landscape On this transparent day light sits on the stones If you touch the earth it crumbles Speech…
Anise Koltz was born in Luxembourg in 1928. She is first and foremost a poet, but is also a translator…
Wood Asleep Castle of ferns and sleep in a nest of flames, the forest has closed in on a sleeping…
Gérard Macé was born in Paris in 1946. He is a poet, essayist and translator. He published his first book…
DEPARTURE Enough seen. The vision has been encountered in all skies. Enough had. Sounds of cities, in the evening, and…
Homesick for the Earth One day we’ll say ‘The sun ruled then. Don’t you remember how it shone on the…
Jules Supervielle was born in Montevideo, to French Basque parents, and orphaned less than a year later during a family…
As a young man, Robert Desnos joined Breton’s Surrealist group and became the master of ‘automatic’ speech and writing. But…
