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

Short 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) and novel ”La constellation des naufrages” (L’Âge d’Homme, 2018). 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, and is one of its founding members. 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 for Opera. Music. Theatre., Rotterdam, with countertenor Edu Rojas and mezzo-soprano Irene Sorozábal Moreno.

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. Her next novel will be published in 2024. She is working on the one coming after, sponsored by Leenaards Foundation.

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