The Spoken Worlds program continues with a reading of excerpts of her book Aliène, followed by a discussion with the public.

In Aliène Fauvel, a thirty-something woman wounded by the police during a protest, decides to dog-sit for her best friend’s father’s. The dog she’s looking after turns out to be a clone, and she somehow starts investigating mysterious alien abductions while getting high probably a little too often. Against an eerie backdrop, the novel explores fear, domination, and the narratives that shape our world and ourselves.

Phœbe Hadjimarkos Clarke has published novels, short stories, poetry and translations. Her first novel, Tabor, was published by Editions du Sabot in 2021, and her second novel, Aliène (Editions du Sous-sol, 2024) was awarded the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix JesusParadis. She has published two volumes of poetry: Cadavres, (crymimicry, 2022) and 18 Brum’hair, (Rotolux Press, 2023, in collaboration with Martin Desinde). She also writes for artists and musicians.

The Spoken Worlds program is organized with the complicity of Fabienne Radi and Emmanuelle Pireyre, both authors and teachers, in charge of the two writing workshops at HEAD – Geneva. The Spoken Worlds events invite us to immerse ourselves in the plural practices of reading and to draw, thanks to a community of voices, invigorating paths of thought.

This year’s events will be held on the HEAD – Geneva campus (Bâtiment E, Salle Georges Addor, Avenue de Chatelaine 5, 1203 Geneva).