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Since 2015, the Prix des lecteurs de la Ville de Lausanne has rewarded a novel written by an author from French-speaking Switzerland. This year, for the 9th edition, the nominees are : Eric Bulliard’s Cabin Odile Cornuz‘s rifle Les Déshérités by Valentin Decoppet Letter to my dictator fromEugène Her favorite by Sarah Jollien-Fardel In previous […]

Today, on the day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, we pay tribute with music. There is a music that helps us to remember these atrocities, a music that becomes a tool of memory and mourning in the face of tragedy. On the one hand, it has been handed down to […]

In recent years, the need to slow down the pace of our lives has become increasingly apparent. Especially since the pandemic, our relationship with time has tended to evolve. This desire to slow down is not new. The Slow movement, for example, was initiated in the 80s in response to global acceleration. It invites us […]

When BCUL librarians are challenged, jostled, amused, transported or transformed by a document, they like to share it with users. They do this through “Bouches-à-oreille”, bookmarks placed in the documents available on our various sites. We've selected a few below to inspire you to pay us a visit.

In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf writes that “a woman must have some money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” (Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, trans. Clara Malraux, 2016: 8 ). This observation sums up what the British author develops in the rest of her […]

Michel Corboz, a choral and orchestral conductor from Fribourg who was born in Lausanne, died on September 2 at the age of 87. He leaves a deep and indelible mark on choral life in French-speaking Switzerland. Yes, because choirs and the human voice were certainly his passion! Founder of the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, which […]