la maison de l'écriture
The Montricher project
The Maison de l’Ecriture, which is currently under construction in Montricher, will be entirely dedicated to literature. Designed as a small city, its different buildings form an unusual ensemble : residences for writers, library, auditorium, exhibition space, dining room, lounge and the offices of the Foundation, intended for the multiple activities of the Jan Michalski Foundation.
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Milticultural Library
Library
With its five storeys of galleries, transversed by passageways equipped for reading, the library of the Maison de l’Ecriture is revealing its impressive structure. Wholly built in solid oak, it will eventually hold some 80’000 works in several languages, in accordance with its international calling.
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prix Jan Michaski de littérature
Jury and award of the prize
The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2011 was awarded to György Dragomán for The White King, a fascinating and shocking novel that describes the vicious reality of the communist dictatorship in everyday life through the eyes of a child.
See the selection of the Jury.
Event: exposition
Open Day
After over two years of building work, the Jan Michalski Foundation invited the inhabitants of Montricher and its neighbouring villages to visit the Maison de l’Ecriture, which is still under construction in Montricher.
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