Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Charles Lewinsky
© J.F. Paga
WRITER - DRAMATIST
Switzerland - France
Charles Lewinsky was born in Zurich in 1946. He studied German literature and theater. A dramaturge, screen writer and novelist, he won the Schiller Foundation prize for his previous novel, Johannistag (2000). Melnitz, praised by the critics as a literary exploit, was called a “Swiss Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Léa Marcou has translated more than thirty important books, documents, essays and novels. She was touched to find the Jewish-German her parents spoke — a language that has almost disappeared today — in the mouths of the characters in Melnitz.
