Lausanne writer Adrien Rupp won the City of Lausanne 2024 Literary Creation Grant with his novel project “La Simone”, a “touching text of great literary quality”. Richard Holzer wins the Comics Creation Grant with “Lost Sand”, which reflects on the passing of time. The first receives 15,000 francs and the second 10,000 francs.
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With “La Simone”, a country seamstress grandmother, Adrien Rupp “offers us a story like no one does anymore: by gently telling us the little things of everyday life, this touching and very mature text brings a reflection on forgotten values, such as simplicity or kindness,” wrote the City of Lausanne in a press release on Wednesday.
Adrien Rupp is an artist from Lausanne, trained at the Manufacture. Actor, director and screenwriter, several of his texts have been staged or published in the literary magazine “The Fifth Season”. His first novel, “The Burglar”, was published by La Veilleuse in 2023.
Atypical aesthetics
On the comics side, the jury was “unanimously convinced” by Richard Holzer’s proposal, “Lost Sand”. This project with an “atypical and timeless aesthetic” features a hotel receptionist in his long and routine career. Its graphic style “nostalgically recalls the Franco-Belgian comic strips of the 1920s and 30s,” writes the City.
Richard Holzer is a Swiss-Japanese comic book illustrator and author. After studying visual communication, he entered the Geneva School of Comics and continued his studies in illustration at HEAD – Geneva, which gave him the opportunity to study a semester at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design.
The next edition of the two creation grants will be launched in January 2025 with a deadline for receipt of texts of April 30, 2025.
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