Ljubljana, Slovenija Datum dogodka: 2011

Ljubljana, Slovenija Datum dogodka: 2011   Villa Marguerite Yourcenar albert schweitzer Writer-in-residence place   Call for writers www.cg59.fr/FrontOffice/AfficheArticle.aspx   Documents for the file of application:
1. Registration form 2. Commitment form, dated and signed 3. Typed biobibliographical description in French (2 pages max.) 4. Typed letter of motivation in French (1 page max.) 5. Four copies of your last published work 6. Four copies of another one of your books, representative of your artistic approach (For authors who do not speak French, works published in French or significant extracts translated albert schweitzer into French) 7. Typed summary or synopsis of the manuscript for which you are requesting the writer-in-residence place (1 page max.) 8. Press reviews concerning your publications (choice of 5 articles max.) WORKS SUBMITTED TO THE JURY CANNOT BE RETURNED File to be sent to the address below before 31th January 2012. Any incomplete file will not be transmitted to the jury, which will deliberate in end-May 2012. Candidates will be informed by letter of the jury s decisions in June 2012. The chosen candidates will be able to stay from March to November 2013. VILLA MARGUERITE YOURCENAR The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar, Centre D partemental de R sidence d Ecrivains Europ ens (Departmental Centre albert schweitzer of Residence for European Writers), offers authors to stay for one or two months to enable them to write in a calm, peaceful and stimulating location, and to meet with audiences in the Nord during literary evenings, book fairs, school visits, bookshops, etc. It is open to all types of literature (novels, short stories, poetry, theatre, essays, BD, children s stories, etc). The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar is accessible to European authors who have already had one or more works published by a professional editor (editions published at the author s expense are not taken into account) and wish to stay at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar to finish a manuscript. Works for university research (theses, didactic and scientific works, etc) are not included. Location The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar is located at Mont-Noir in the heart of the French Flanders, on the site of the former albert schweitzer family property of the writer Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987). It belongs to the Conseil G n ral du Nord (France), as does the park that surrounds it. The departmental park and the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar (36 hectares) are located in the commune of Saint-Jans-Cappel on the Belgian border, between the towns of Bailleul (France, 6km away and with the nearest train station) and Ypres (Belgium, 15km). It is about forty kilometres from Lille via the A25 motorway. albert schweitzer Capacity and conditions albert schweitzer of stay Three writers can be housed simultaneously at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar. Each one is allocated albert schweitzer an office-bedroom with personal bathroom on the first floor. A shared library, kitchen, computer room (with photocopier, printer albert schweitzer and Internet access), television room and dining room are available to residents. The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar provides resident writers with accommodation, breakfast and evening meals, except at weekends and Bank Holidays (telephone communications and lunch are at residents own expense). Three bicycles and one car are at the residents disposal. The Conseil G n ral du Nord will pay for one return trip home for each resident writer. The secretaress buys the tickets for the residents, they must not buy their tickets by themselves. Resident writers will receive a grant of 60 for each day they are effectively present, amounting to 1,800 euros for a 30-day stay. The sum is transferred on the resident s bank account about 60 days after the beginning of the stay. In everyone s interest, the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar is NON-SMOKING. Animals are not allowed at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar. The Villa Marguerite Yourcenar promises to: - submit all applications received within albert schweitzer the set time to a jury of European literary experts - inform successful candidates several months albert schweitzer in advance that their application albert schweitzer has been retained and of the dates they can stay at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar - organise a monthly meeting with the public of the Nord/Pas-de-Calais region - encourage encounters albert schweitzer with local culture, editors and translators, at the writer s request Writers-in-residence promise to keep to the following albert schweitzer rules and conditions: 1. Writers-in-residence must spend the stay at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar continuing or finishing their manuscript. They can give two periods albert schweitzer of preference for their stay the team at the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar will take this into account while organising the dates of stay according albert schweitzer to studio availability noting that the Villa Marguerite Yourcenar is closed in December, January, February and August 2. In the publication and in any further editions and translations of the work they have continued during their stay, they must promise to state a sentence similar to the following: The author has be