Pierre Lepori and Nadia Sartoretti

Pierre Lepori, born in Lugano in 1968, has been living in French-speaking Switzerland for twenty years. He graduated in Literature in Siena and holds a doctorate in Theatre History from the University of Bern. He is a cultural journalist for RSI (Rete2) and RTS (Espace2). He has published two volumes of poetry (Qualunque sia il nome, Casagrande, 2003; Strade bianche, Interlinea, 2013), two essays and three novels (Grisù, Sessualità, Casagrande, 2007 and 2011; Come cani, Effigie, 2015), which he translated himself into French (Sans peau, Sexualité, Comme un chien) for Éditions d’en bas.

Involved in collective ventures such as the magazines Viceversa Letteratura and Hétérographe, revue des homolittératures ou pas (2009–2013), and in French-speaking Swiss theatre as a critic and director, he has taught courses and conducted mentoring sessions at the Swiss Literary Institute in Biel and enjoys sharing an idea of queer literature: fluid, translinguistic and multicultural.

Nadia Sartoretti, born in 1977, studied French literature and Chinese studies at the University of Geneva, before beginning a course in visual arts at the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD). She now divides her time between her writing projects and research on literature and Chinese television series, as well as on cinema from the Bombay film industry. She published Les aspérités de l'asphalte with Héros-Limite (2009) and Lost Kingdom (in collaboration with Laurent Valdès) with A-Type éditions (2014).