Saturday, November 16, 11 a.m., with Xochitl Borel

Born in 1987, Xochitl Borel is a French-speaking writer. She is the author of L’alphabet des anges, (L’Aire, 2014) for which she won the Prix Lettres Frontière 2015 and the Prix du Roman des Romands 2016, Les oies de l’Ile Rousseau(L’Aire, 2017), a soft thriller set in Geneva, and Le siècle des couronnes (Dashbook, 2022), a short contemporary story in which she depicts an irrational and poetic universe that is ironically reminiscent of the “covidélirant” world. August 2024 saw the publication of her first collection of poems: Trognes (L’Aire).
She currently lives in Vevey (Switzerland), where she founded the Maison suisse de la Poésie.
A lover of words and mother of three children as beautiful as the singularity of each being, she continues to write the world to understand a little of this humanity capable of great cruelties and infinite tenderness.