Le Château de Lavigny

Le Château de Lavigny

Summer Residencies

Address of Château
Château de Lavigny,
Route d’Etoy 10,
1175 Lavigny,
Switzerland.


Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt
Montbenon 2
Case postale 5475
1002 Lausanne
Switzerland

Tél: +41 21 321 4545
Fax: +41 21 321 4546
Email: chlavigny@hotmail.com
Website: www.chateaudelavigny.ch
Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation and Its Mission

The Château de Lavigny International Writers' Residence was founded by the late Jane Rowohlt in memory of her husband, the German publisher, Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt. Her wish was to bequeath their home, the Château de Lavigny, for a writers’ residence offering and fostering “a spirit of international community and creativity.” In 1996, a small, dedicated international committee of writers and administrators agreed to serve as volunteers to create this institution. While Ledig-Rowohlt published Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Günther Grass, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Harold Pinter, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other key twentieth century writers, he always looked for new voices. In that spirit, the Residence encourages emerging writers as well as established ones to apply. It looks for writers interested in exchanging their ideas as well as concentrating on their own work.

Board of Directors
Olivier Bourgeois, (President)   Francis Greenburger
Eva Koralnik   Axel Röhm
Pierre-Alain Tâche   Olivier Weniger
     
Foundation Committee
Anna Bourgeois (Coordinatrice)   Fawzia Assad
Ghislaine Dunant   Françoise Muller
Lang-Hoan Pham   Susan Tiberghien
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi