From September 22 to October 19, 2026
Caroline Laffon (France) Fiction
Caroline Laffon, the author of some forty books, has been writing for twenty-five years in the fields of literature, documentary, and audio fiction. From the Amazon to Japan, she draws on field research and immersive experiences to inform her work. Her writing explores the connections between humans, their environment, and the animal world. She is currently working on her first novel, a fantasy set in the Jura region of the 19th century.
Maud Mabillard (Switzerland) Non fiction, translation
Maud Mabillard is the author of the book *La Fleur rouge: Natacha Klimova and the Russian Maximalists*, published in 2007 by Noir sur Blanc (and in Spanish translation in 2023). She is also a literary translator from Russian and has translated more than fifteen books, primarily by contemporary authors.
She is currently working on a new nonfiction book.
Yulia Marfutova (Germany) Fiction
Yulia Marfutova was born in 1988 in Moscow, studied German philology and history in Berlin, earned her PhD in Münster, and now lives in the US. Her debut novel Der Himmel vor hundert Jahren was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2021. Her second novel Eine Chance ist ein höchstens spatzengroßer Vogel was published in 2025.
Anne Pitteloud (Switzerland) Fiction
Anne Pitteloud is a literary journalist and editor for Le Courrier newspaper. She has published a collection of short stories En plein vol (Ed. d’autre part, 2016) and a critical monograph entitled Catherine Safonoff. Réinventer l’île (Ed. Zoé, 2017), as well as short stories and poems in collective works. She hosts literary events and writing workshops, and is currently working on a novel.
This residency is supported by the State of Geneva
Lena Schätte (Germany)
Lena Schätte (*1993) is a writer, literary mediator and psychiatric nurse from the Ruhr region of Germany. Her novel „Das Schwarz an den Händen meines Vaters“ was published in spring 2025 by S.Fischer Publishing. It deals with alcoholism in the family system, was longlisted for the German Book Prize, received the W.G. Sebald Literature Prize, and is currently being translated into six languages.
