MEET

Depuis trente ans, la Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs de Saint-Nazaire accueille en résidence des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs du monde entier. Elle leur alloue une bourse et met à leur disposition un grand appartement au dixième étage du Building, au-dessus du port et des Chantiers navals.

Elle organise chaque année des rencontres littéraires internationales "meeting" et remet trois prix littéraires : le Prix Laure-Bataillon de la meilleure œuvre de fiction traduite en français dans l’année, le Prix Laure-Bataillon classique et le Prix de la Jeune Littérature latino-américaine.

Chaque année, elle publie la revue littéraire internationale meet et plusieurs livres bilingues.

Residencies
The "Meet" welcomes one writer or translator at a time for four to eight weeks. The resident is allocated a weekly grant and accommodated in a large two-bedroom flat in the "Building", an emblematic high-rise overlooking the docks and the shipyards of Saint Nazaire Harbour, on the Loire River estuary. At the end of his/her stay, the resident is given the opportunity to have one of his works and its French translation published in the Meet's collection "Les Bilingues".

The writers and translators who wish to apply must send a biographical as well as a bibliographical note. Every application is considered by The Meet's literary council, a body of writers, translators and critics.

Saint Nazaire is a middle-size town located in the south of Brittany, on the Loire River estuary. It's only two and a half hours away from Paris by high-speed train. The nearest airport is Nantes Atlantique.

Literary prizes
The Meet organizes regular meetings with writers and translators and awards three literary prizes. The prix Laure-Bataillon rewards both the writer of a fictional work and his or her translator The prix Laure-Bataillon classique rewards the translator of a classical work. The prix de la jeune litérature latino-américaine - is awarded every other year, each time in a different South American country. It aims at honouring and publishing a young Latino writer selected by a jury of writers in his own country.

Every year the Meet asks about twenty writers from different countries to contribute a few pages on a literary topic. Their texts are then translated into French and published in a bilingual edition.

SELECTION A LIRE... Elias KHOURY Julia AZARETTO Piotr Sommer Lectures lointaines Extrait Jens S. Sørensen Lettre d’un corps étranger Extrait Le parasite Ying Chen - vidéo - Zivko Čingo Zigmunds Skujiņš (vidéo) 1994 / Dan STANCIU Edwin MADRID Pierre Nora Aka Morchiladze Maxime Ossipov André Gabastou Tanikawa Shuntarô Elisa Shua Dusapin 1993 / Marcelo COHEN Michael Turner Alan John Scott Gianfranco Bettin Irak Costa Rica Agnès Járfás Alain Borer Elsa Osorio André Velter Montenegro Georges Lory Italie Naja Marie Aidt Rencontre avec des écrivains australiens Régis Debray Salman Rushdie (Inde - États-Unis) PABLO MONTOYA (Colombie) Rencontre avec des écrivains chinois Rodney Saint-Eloi Grégoire Polet Sika Fakambi Paraguay L’invention du livre Maïssa Bey Australie Fernando Guimaraes Pierre Ducrozet Slovénie Extrait Se donner un genre Klaus HOFFER El Salvador Grèce Bosnie-Herzégovine Akira Ezawa Françoise Morvan Afrique du Sud Ernest Pignon-Ernest Slobodan Mickovič Bosnie-Herzégovine Sorensen Lettre d’un corps étranger Extrait Juan Carlos MONDRAGON meet n°15 Porto Rico / Phnom Penh Gheorghe Crăciun Rachel Ertel Patrice Bougon Peter Bergsma Béatrice Trotignon Jean Noël Juttet Thanàssis Hatzòpoulos Brésil Juan Gabriel VASQUEZ Dragi Mihajlovski