Salomé Kiner
From 3 April to 24 May 2023

Born in 1986 to a Russian father and an Italo-Swiss mother, Salomé Kiner is a journalist, literary columnist, and novelist. She holds an arts degree and is a graduate of Paris’s school of journalism, the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ). She is particularly interested in the notion of marginalization. She cowrote 50 Summers of Music with Arnaud Robert (Textuel, 2017). Painting the portrait of a teenage girl whose wild dreams run up against her modest home life, Kiner’s first novel, Grande couronne (Christian Bourgois, 2021), was shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the Prix Inter, the Prix Stanislas, le Prix Flore, and the Prix Envoyé par la Poste, and was awarded the Prix Zadig. In 2022, the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture awarded her the Prix de la relève section littérature.