FROM AUGUST 3 TO AUGUST 30, 2021
CLAUDINE GALEA (FRANCE) - THEATRE, FICTION
Claudine Galea writes novels, theater, stories, for adults and youth. Winner of the Grand Prize for Dramatic Literature with Au Bord in 2011 and the same prize in Youth with Noircisse in 2019. She also received the SACD prize for her radio dramas on France-Culture and France-Inter. Her theater texts are published by Espaces 34. Among the last ones, Fake, Blanche-Neige Foutue Forêt, Au Bois, Les Invisibles, etc. Her last novel Les choses comme elles sont was published by Verticales in 2019. Her other novels are published by Le Rouergue and Le Seuil. She collaborates with the magazine Remue.Net with a literary column Rêver lire. She is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Ubu Scènes d'Europe and of the magazine Parages, magazine of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg where she is an associate artist.
This residency is supported by the “Service de Coopération et d’Action culturelle” of the Embassy of France in Switzerland
EZZ DARWIESH (EGYPT) - THEATER, FICTION, NON-FICTION, POETRY
Ezz Darwiesh is a Freelancer Writer, visual artist and activist. He writes theatre plays, 14 performances Thoughts in my mind, The mice room, Time of shadow, The dreamers’ revolution and others. His plays participated in many international festivals and awarded to a few awards. In 2011, he started blogging about the revolutions in the middle east and many other public events. He wrote a novel Searching for the lost and a collection of poetry. He started publishing his work on the internet as an alternative to deal with the publishing problems in Egypt and for issues related to freedom of expression and the censorship. In 2017, he got a grant from Al Mawred organization in their program Kon Ma3 El Fann as artist at risk. Ezz Darwiesh is also a painter. In 2019 he organized his first installation exhibition Universal breathing for painting, photography and written thoughts.
This residency is supported by ProtectDefenders.eu, Fondation Jan Michalski, Artlink SüdKulturFonds.
HEATHER HARTLEY (USA) - FICTION, POETRY
Heather Hartley is the author of the poetry collections Adult Swim (2016) and Knock Knock (2010) both from Carnegie Mellon University Press and Paris Editor for Tin House magazine. Her short fiction and poems have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Slice and other venues. She has presented writers at Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris and has taught creative writing at the American University of Paris.
MATTHIEU RUF (SWITZERLAND) - FICTION
Born in 1984 in Lausanne, Matthieu Ruf is a freelance journalist and member of the collectif d’auteur-e-s AJAR. He studied Spanish literature and history at the University of Lausanne, then literary writing at the Master CAP of the Bern University of the Arts. His first novel, Percussions, was awarded the Georges-Nicole Prize. His current projects include a “six-handed” graphic novel and the stage adaptation of his second book Seconde nature (Paulette éditeur, 2018).
TAREQ SAMIN (BANGLADESH) - POETRY, FICTION, NON-FICTION
Tareq Samin is a Poet, Writer and Editor of the bilingual literary journal Sahitto. He is author of six books, include two poetry collections, three Short Stories collections and a Novel. Some of his poems are translated in English, Spanish, German, Slovak, Portuguese, French, Italian and Hungarian Languages. Tareq Samin is a Martin Roth Initiative Scholarship alumni (joint program of Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and the Goethe-Institut). His poetry has the theme of secularism, calling for people of different faiths to stand united, admonishing religious extremism and violence, and speaking of the power of poetry to bring about change; he talks of the pressures of writing in a stifling social climate. He is an important voice in the literary world working against violence and extremism and in favour of peace and free speech.
This residency is supported by ProtectDefenders.eu, Fondation Jan Michalski, Artlink SüdKulturFonds
