FROM JUNE 1 TO JUNE 28, 2021
CARSTEN JENSEN (DENMARK) - FICTION, NON FICTION, TRAVELOGUE
Born in 1952, graduated in literature from University of Copenhagen, 1981, published 26 books among them novels, essays and travelogues, the latest is Exercises in Parting, 2020, on grief, pandemic and climate change.
This residency is supported by the Danish Art Council
BETH ANN FENNELLY (USA) - FICTION, POETRY
Beth Ann Fennelly, the poet laureate of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She’s won grants from the N.E.A., United States Artists, and a Fulbright to Brazil.
Her sixth book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (W. W. Norton) was an Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Book of 2017.
ANTOINE JACCOUD (SWITZERLAND) - FICTION, THEATRER, FILM
Antoine Jaccoud was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1957. He writes for the cinema ( L'enfant d'en haut and Journal de ma tête by Ursula Meier, Le vent tourne by Bettina Oberli ), the theater (Le mari de Lolo, On liquide , Adieu aux bêtes created at the Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne in 2017) and for everything that is connected to the oral expression. Performed in France, Belgium, Poland and Burkina Faso, his plays have also been broadcast by Radio Suisse Italienne and France Culture. Antoine Jaccoud also tours on stages in Switzerland and elsewhere with the authors and musicians of the spoken word group "Bern ist überall . Au revoir , dit au Festival d'Avignon by Mathieu Amalric in July 2019 is his most recent monologue. He is currently preparing the film adaptation of two of his monologues and is working on the conception of a poetic and performative dialogue with the Albanian author and actor Shpëtim Selmani.
This residency is supported by the State of Vaud (Switzerland)
REIN RAUD (ESTONIA) - FICTION, POETRY, TRANSLATION, NON-FICTION
Rein Raud (born 1961 in Tallinn, Estonia) is a writer, as well as a scholar of cultural theory and Japanese classics. He is the author of 9 novels, 5 poetry collections, 4 other books of fiction and numerous translations from Japanese, Italian, Lithuanian, Classical Chinese and German. He has received the Best Book of Fiction Award (2004 and 2013) and the Eduard Vilde Award (2009). Three of his novels have been published in English, The Brother (2016), The Reconstruction (2017) and The Death of the Perfect Sentence (2017), longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. He has also published 3 academic monographs in English (one of these co-authored with Zygmunt Bauman) and 2 in Estonian, in addition to several edited volumes and numerous articles both in scholarly publications and periodicals for the general public..
SHPËTIM SELMANI (KOSOVO) - FICTION, POETRY, NON-FICTION
Shpëtim Selmani was born on 1986 in Kosovo. Has obtained a degree from the University of Pristina – Faculty of Arts in Acting. Beside writing poetry and novels he also plays regularly in theatre performances. His publications include Notes of a Wrangler, Poetry in the times of Blood and Desperation 2010 – 2017 and his last book Booklet of Love. Shpetim writes continuously for the alternative blog S’bunker. He received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2020.
This residency is supported by S. Fisher Stiftung and Artlink
