After a doctoral dissertation on the transformations of Swiss agriculture at the beginning of the 21st century, Jérémie Forney specialised in the study of agricultural and food systems, particularly in relation to contemporary environmental issues. He conducts his research and teaches at the Institute of Anthropology at Université de Neuchâtel.

Laureate of the Alimentarium short story competition Writing about food disgust
Marlise Schläpfer Heilmann grew up in eastern Switzerland. After time spent in various parts of Switzerland and Germany, she settled in Aargau, the home of her maternal ancestors. She has been writing letters and diaries ever since she learned how to write and now, since she retired, columns, short stories and autobiographical passages too. This is the first time she has entered a writing competition.

Laureate of the Alimentarium short story competition Writing about food disgust
Estelle Trisconi, a former journalist in the written press, is now a lecturer at the Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud and specialises in acquisition of learning. Originally from the canton of Valais, she is married and a content mother of three children. She likes to write from time to time, to tell stories.

Laureate of the Alimentarium short story competition Writing about food disgust
A journalist by profession and a diarist since childhood, Emmanuelle Ryser compiles diaries, travel diaries and notebooks of all kinds. Since 2013, she has been offering life stories and writing workshops under the banner E comme Ecriture. Her watchwords are ‘leaving a written record’ and ‘conveying’. In 2020, she published her first novel, Le Cake au citron.

Winner of the Alimentarium short story competition Writing about food disgust.
Motivated by her passion for words since childhood, Sabine Dormond strives to pass on her enthusiasm via writing workshops and public readings. Inspired by the Oulipians, ten years ago she co-founded a group of authors called the Dissidents de la pleine lune. www.recits.ch