Lambert Schlechter

In April 2015 his house in Eschweiler (Luxembourg) was destroyed by a huge blast, thousands of books and nearly all his manuscripts were annihilated. A photographic documentation on the destruction of the library was published in the on-line newspaper Luxembourg Times.

Since 2001 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France

Lambert Schlechter (born 1941) is a Luxembourg author who has published some 40 books written in French, most of them published in France and two written in German published in Luxembourg. His work includes poetry, novels, short stories and essays. A great number of contributions to newspapers, magazines and anthologies in different countries. Since 2006 he is working on a greater prose project under the general title "Le Murmure du monde": a collection of literary, philosophical and autobiographical fragments; so far nine volumes have been published (see below: Works), X, XI and XII are in preparation.

Born on 4 December 1941 in Luxembourg City, Schlechter studied philosophy and literature in Paris and Nancy before teaching philosophy, French language and literature at the Lycée Classique in Echternach. His first works, Das große Rasenstück (1981), a collection of poems, and Buntspecht im Hirn (1982), in prose, were followed by articles, short stories (Partances, 2003) and novels (Le silence inutile, 1991) in French. He was vice-president of the Luxembourg section of Amnesty International, Luxembourg, representative in the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva, member of the Société des écrivains luxembourgeois de langue française (SELF), president of the Conseil national du livre.