Literary tête-à-tête Conference

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In collaboration withArt Métro Sierre, the Opale Foundation hosts Jérôme Meizoz, in discussion with journalist and current executive director ofCrans-Montana Classics Isabelle Bagnoud Loretan. Jérôme Meizoz (1967) is originally from Valais. A writer, he teaches French literature at the University of Lausanne. Winner of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences Award (2005), he has published notably: Ramuz. A clandestine passenger of French Letters, Zoé, 1997; L'Âge du roman parlant 1919-1939, preface by Pierre Bourdieu, Droz, 2001; Le Gueux philosophe. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Antipodes, 2003; La littérature «en personne». Media scene and forms of embodiment, Slatkine «Erudition», 2016; Making the author in a neo-liberal regime (Rudiments of literary marketing), Slatkine «Erudition», 2020; Writing vernacular worlds. Literature, ethnology, and social creation, Tangence, 2021; Behind the scenes of proper names (Louis-Ferdinand Céline), BSN Press, 2021. He participated in the edition of C. F. Ramuz's Novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (2005) and in the Complete Works of Ch.-A Cingria (L'Âge d'Homme, 2012-2018). Among his literary works: Les Désemparés, Zoé, 2005; Père et passe, Le Temps qu'il fait, 2008; Séismes, Zoé, 2013; Pénurie (with Zivo), Art & Fiction, 2013; Haut Val des loups, Zoé, 2015; Faire le garçon, Zoé, 2017; Absolutely modern!, Zoé, 2019; Malencontre, Zoé, 2022; (with Alberto Nessi), Storie di paese/Histoires de village, poems in crossed translations, Empreintes, 2022; Bouchée trade (poems, Empreintes, 2024); Le Hameau de personne (novel, Zoé, 2025). In 2000, he received a encouragement prize from the State of Valais and in 2018, in Bern, the Swiss Literature Prize for Faire le garçon (Zoé). Glass of Verrée offered at the venue after the event. CHF 10.- per person | Free for Friends of the Opale Foundation, members of ArtMétro Sierre, and with the Abobo. Reservation recommended:online ticketing