The Chateau at Lavigny hosts readings Sunday 17 July. Six writers from around the world and residents at Lavingy will read from their works, wine will served after the reading. Open to the public.
- Ron Butlin – (UK) Novels, Poetry
- Yuhong Chen – (China) Novels, Poetry
- Regi Claire – (Switzerland/UK) Novels, Short stories
- Krystyna Lenkowska – (Poland) Poetry
- Thembelani Ngenelwa – (South Africa) Novels
- Moez Surani – (Canada) Poetry, Novels
Location: http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/events.html
Link out: http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/events.html
Date: 17 Jul 2011
Geneva Writers' Group at BooksBooksBooks in Lausanne, for Offshoots readings
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Geneva Writers’ Group is celebrating two major events in the run-up to its annual international writers conference. The 20th anniversary of the group’s Offshoots magazine is out. And Petina Gappah, one of the group’s members, has just won the Guardian First Book Award 2009.
Gappah is a trade lawyer in Geneva who has written a collection of stories about her native Zimbabwe. Her book, An Elegy for Easterly, is only the second collection of short stories to win the award.
Gappah’s story from the collection, “The cracked Pink Lips of Rosie’s…”, was published in the October 2007 edition of Offshoots, the magazine of collected writing published every two years by the group.
Title: Offshoots book reading
Location: Lausanne, Books Books Books
Link out: Click here
Description: Geneva Writers Group will hold a second public reading from its new Offshoots, collected writings
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 24 Nov 2009
John Zimmer, winner of the European Toastmaster award, with coach and daughter Kristen. Photo ©2008 Alexandra Zimmer
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “My Terminator speech was not an icebreaker, it was a bone breaker,” says John Zimmer of his first place International Toastmasters presentation in Bamberg, Germany 15 November. Zimmer, a Canadian who works at the International Organization for Migration, battled his way, mentally and physically, through three knockout rounds with eight finalists from 18 Toastmasters clubs in Europe, but the physical effort had to do with the fact that his speech featured Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator.
