Discipline: Literature

Swiss writer and cultural practitioner Andrea Keller is convinced of the value and effectiveness of well-told stories to shape public imaginaries. During her residency in Libreville, Gabon from July – August 2022 she will talk with local artists, NGO workers as well as eco-guides and seek contact with Gabon’s wilderness. Her research work is entitled …

South African writer and lecturer Anton Krueger will spend July 2022 at Château de Lavigny for a research trip. During this time, Anton plans to write a series of short paradoxical parables inspired by images from the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne. He intends to publish an assemblage of these stories as a book titled …

Sylvia Arthur is the Founder of the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, a library, archive, and museum dedicated to collecting the work of African and Diaspora writers from the late 19th-century to the present day. During her research trip in Zurich, Switzerland from 14 April to 12 May 2022, …

Swiss writer and poet Armin Senser will be on residency in Johannesburg from February until May. During his time in the city, he says that he intends to write a book: “I will write a book about architecture. It will be autobiographical. My childhood in Biel, Switzerland, will be the starting point. And Johannesburg will …