Lou Lepori or Pierre Lepori [1] (Lugano, Switzerland, 1968) is a queer non-binary Swiss translator and writer in Italian and French.
They studied in the universities of Siena and Bern (PhD). Lepori was editor for the Theaterlexikon der Schweiz , and a journalist in Lausanne for the Swiss Radio and for the literacy yearbook Viceversa Letteratura. They has translated works by French and Italian writers like Claude Ponti, Monique Laederach, Gustave Roud, Sandro Penna and Luigi Pirandello (to Italian or french). They received the Swiss Schiller Prize for Poetry in 2004. They are the founder and editor of the review Hétérographe: revue des homolittératures ou pas (queer literature & critics). Pierre Lepori's novel Sexuality has an unusual publishing history: it was launched simultaneously in three languages: Italian, French and German. The author did his own translation from Italian to French, and the German translator based her version on the two "originals". In addition, there is a trilingual version that switches between all three languages, depending on which character is speaking [2] ."Lepori points here to a very interesting connection: that between literary genre and gender as opposing and separate categories to be contaminated and actively connected to each other. The process of creolization, and hybridization affects the identity of the writer, the body of the text as well as its position within the traditional territories of literary genres. Literary polyphony questions and abolishes clear-cut borders across a whole series of metaphorically interlinked areas" (Rainer Guldin, Flusserstudies, 22, December 2016) [3]
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