Resident

Julien Burri
From 7 June to 22 June 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Origine
Switzerland

Biography

Born in Lausanne in 1980, the Swiss writer Julien Burri is also a research fellow in literature at the University of Lausanne and a journalist at the Swiss daily Le Temps. He has published several novels, including Poupée (2009), Muscles & La maison (2014), and Prendre l’eau (2017), at Bernard Campiche Éditeur; and Roches tendres (Éditions d’autre part, 2021). He began publishing poetry in 1997; his collections include the artist’s books Ice & Cream (art&fiction, 2014) and Lacunes (BSN Press, 2019), with watercolors by Florence Grivel. He was awarded the Prix de littérature de la Fondation vaudoise pour la culture in 2011.