LITERARY CONVERSATION

In collaboration with Art Métro Sierre, Fondation Opale welcomes Jérôme Meizoz, in conversation with journalist and current executive director of Crans-Montana Classics Isabelle Bagnoud Loretan. 

Jérôme Meizoz (1967) was born in Valais. A writer, he teaches French literature at the University of Lausanne. Winner of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences Prize (2005), his publications include: Ramuz. Un passager clandestin des Lettres françaises, Zoé, 1997; L’Âge du roman parlant 1919-1939, with a preface by Pierre Bourdieu, Droz, 2001; Le Gueux philosophe. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Antipodes, 2003; La littérature «en personne». Scène médiatique et formes d’incarnation, Slatkine «Erudition», 2016; Faire l’auteur en régime néo-libéral (Rudiments de marketing littéraire), Slatkine «Erudition», 2020; Ecrire les mondes vernaculaires. Littérature, ethnologie et création sociale, Tangence, 2021; Coulisses du nom propre (Louis-Ferdinand Céline), BSN Press, 2021. 

He contributed to the edition of C.F. Ramuz’s novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (2005) and to the Complete Works of Ch.-A Cingria (L’Âge d’Homme, 2012-2018). 

His literary works include: 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; Absolument modernes!, Zoé, 2019; Malencontre, Zoé, 2022; (with Alberto Nessi) Storie di paese/Histoires de village, poems in cross-translation, Empreintes, 2022; Commerce de bouches (poems, Empreintes, 2024); Le Hameau de personne (novel, Zoé, 2025). 

In 2000, he received an encouragement award from the State of Valais, and in 2018, in Bern, the Swiss Literature Prize for Faire le garçon (Zoé). 

Drinks offered in the foyer after the event 

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