Michelle Bailat-Jones
From 30 January to 14 February 2023

The writer and translator Michelle Bailat-Jones was born in Japan in 1976, raised in the United States, and now lives in Switzerland. She is the author of two novels – Fog Island Mountains (2014) and Unfurled (2018) – and several translations of French and Swiss writers. For the book she is currently working on, she was awarded a Literary Creation Grant by Pro Helvetia in 2021. Ideas and questions around culture, language, migration, and geography inspire both her writing and her passion for translation.