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kestrel9 ago

I'm playing catch-up on this topic but here's something intriguing:

Institute for Research in Biomedicine Member of The Foundation Council (governing body of the Institute): Paolo Agustoni

Seems worth checking out.

Vanni Bianconi pictured here with Paolo Agustoni

http://wiltons.org.uk/whatson/155-babel-literary-festival-day-events

Babel is a Swiss literary festival. Its main focus is translation, understood as linguistic hospitality and a most powerful means of relation and exchange.

Babel Literary Festival: The Pussywarmers

Switzerland: Philippe Rahmy & Vanni Bianconi 2pm - 3pm Philippe Rahmy and Vanni Bianconi are young Swiss writers who have been writing about London in different languages and genres. Rahmy, who suffers from brittle-bone disease, after a book on his journey to Shanghai, has just published a novel based in London during the Olympic games. Bianconi is a poet who lives in London, and he is working on a travel book on the transient qualities of the city.

many more names, countries on the linked page.