After living in many places, New York-born writer Anne Korkeakivi is now based in Geneva, where she speaks to The Local about how being an expat inspired her first novel, An Unexpected Guest.
Following on the success of her debut novel, The Book of Summers, British author Emylia Hall has looked to Switzerland for inspiration for her latest work. A Heart Bent Out of Shape is set in Lausanne, drawing on time Hall spent there as a 19-year-old student. The Local talks to her to find out more.
English expat Diccon Bewes cast a wry glance at Switzerland in his bestseller Swiss Watching. A French translation, Le Suissologue, is now in bookshops. The Local caught up with the author to discuss chocolate, trains and Oprah’s bag.
Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child
snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.
