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Swiss Literature Awards ceremony
14 February 2019
Alain Berset presents the Swiss Literature Awards 2019. The Grand Award goes to Zsuzsanna Gahse; the Special Award for Mediation to the Centre de traduction littéraire de Lausanne and the Looren Translation House.
His speech has a title: “Literatur – die Feindin der Rechthaberei”. He quotes Susan Sontag and defends empathy as literature’s most topical quality, in a world shrunk by the internet.
Speeches on this site
- Prix suisses de littérature 2019 : « Literatur – die Feindin der Rechthaberei » (in German, French-language page)