Pierre Lepori

Pierre Lepori (* 1968 in Lugano ) is a Swiss theater and literary scholar, journalist , translator , writer and theater director .

Live and act

Pierre Lepori studied language and literature in Siena . He received his doctorate in theater studies from the University of Bern . His dissertation was published as an essay entitled Il teatro nella Svizzera italiana: la generazione dei fondatori (1932-1987) and received the Migros Prize in 2005. He also wrote a biography of the Swiss director Alberto Canetta ( Alberto Canetta: la traversata del teatro , 2007). He was also the head of the Italian-language editorship of the Swiss Theater Lexicon .

In 2004, Lepori received a single work award from the Swiss Schiller Foundation for his poetic debut Qualunque sia il nome . His first novel Grisù was published in 2007. In 2011 his second novel Sessualità followed. This was published at the same time by three publishers in three national languages, additionally, as a Swiss novelty, in a limited edition in three languages.

Lepori is also a translator from French into Italian ( Monique Laederach , Gustave Roud , Claude Ponti ). He was editor of the magazines for Swiss literature Feuxcroisés and Viceversa literature (2006 to 2010). He was one of the initiators of the online literature portal www.culturactif.ch and founded the queer magazine Hétérographe, revue des homolittératures ou pas in 2009 .

Lepori lives and works in Lausanne . He works for the cultural stations of the Swiss radio station Espace 2 and Rete Due .

Publications

• Qualunque sia il nome. Poems. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2003.
  • French: Editions d'en bas, Lausanne 2010.
  • English: Spuyten Duyvil, New-York City, 2017.
• Vento. Poems. LietoColle, Faloppio 2004.
• Grisù. Novel. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007.
  • Sans peau. Novel. Self-transmission into French. Editions d'en bas, Lausanne 2013.
• Di rabbia / De rage. Poems. French by Mathilde Vischer. Sottoscala, Bellinzona 2010.
• Sessualità. Novel. Casagrande, Bellinzona 2011.
  • Sexuality. Self-transmission into French. Editions d'en bas, Lausanne 2011.
  • Sexuality. German by Jacqueline Aerne. Verlag die brotsuppe , Biel 2011.
• Strade Bianche. Poems. Novara, Interlinea 2013.
• Come cani. Novel. Milano, Effigie, 2015.
  • Comme un chien. Transcription into French: Editions d'en bas, Lausanne 2015.

Web links

• Publications by and about Pierre Lepori in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Pierre Lepori's website
• Pierre Lepori . on the website of the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Bern
• Pierre Lepori on the Bibliomedia website (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Lepori ( Memento of the original of April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Bern. 
2. ↑ Book Description on the publisher's website; Retrieved March 31, 2014. (Italian).
3. ↑ Project: About . Wiki of the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Bern.
4. ↑ Prices for Swiss authors. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 15, 2004; accessed on March 30, 2014.
5. ↑ prohelvetia.ch ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pro Helvetia , Swiss Cultural Foundation; Retrieved April 1, 2014. 
6. ^ Homepage of Heterographe. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (2009-13) 
7. ^ Homepage of Pierre Lepori