As a writer, Elodie is in love with lost tales and committed to abandonography. In her most recent work, she combines ghost stories, oral tales and historical facts to discuss climate change in a small Shetland community. As an opera librettist, she believes in form and structure, and in the beauty of transdisciplinary collaborations. As a human being, she puts the coexistence of contradictions at the core of her practice.

BIO

Elodie Glerum (1989*) is a Swiss-Dutch writer and translator. She is the author of novella “La belle époque” (Paulette éditrice, 2016), collection of short stories “Erasmus” (d’autre part, 2018), as well as novels “La constellation des naufrages” (L’Âge d’Homme, 2018) and “L’allumette de Pandore” (La Veilleuse, 2024). Her poetry collection “60°0’N” (2020) was published in literary magazine L’Épître. With Guy Chevalley, she co-wrote “Le carnotzet mystère” (Favre, 2022), a mock crime story commissioned by the artistic committee of Vaudoise Assurances.

From 2012 to 2022, she worked with Swiss literary collective AJAR. She is one of its founding members and she took part in the writing of AJAR’s novel “Vivre près des tilleuls” (Flammarion, 2016).

As a librettist, she regularly collaborates with composer Manuel Sánchez García (1989*). In February 2020, they were in residence at Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature to work on a chamber opera. A work-in-progress version was performed in May 2023 at O. Festival, Rotterdam, with countertenor Edu Rojas and mezzo-soprano Irene Sorozábal Moreno.

Among other places, she was writer in residence at Sumburgh Head Lighthouse, at the International Writers’ and Translators’ House, Ventspils, and in Scalloway’s artist studio The Booth.

She is laureate of a Pro Helvetia Literary Work Grant 2018 and of a Leenaards Foundation Cultural Grant 2022.