This was decided by the UNESCO Executive Board in Paris.
The Federal Office of Culture announced on Friday that the committee was thus honouring two pioneers of the travel diary. The estates are held at the Bibliothèque de Genève, the Musée Photo Elysée in Lausanne and the Literary Archives of the Swiss National Library in Bern.
They reflect the artistic and critical engagement of the two writers with the most formative conflicts of the 20th century, which are still relevant today, the culture office wrote.
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Swiss NGOs abroad to receive 10% less federal funding
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In 2025 and 2026, Swiss NGOs will have 10% less federal funding available for international cooperation than in the previous two-year period.
Swiss parties spent less than CHF1 million on February green vote
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