Nicole Pfister Fetz is the new General Secretary of the Brussels-based European Writers’ Council (EWC). It represents the interests of 220,000 writers publishing in 34 different languages.
Joukois, born in 1968, assumed his new duties at the beginning of July, EWC said in a press release on Wednesday. He will co-lead the organization with the newly elected president, Spanish author Miguel Angel Serrano. With this meeting, Nicole Fister Fetz takes a leap from Switzerland to Europe. From 2007 until last June, he was director of the professional association A*dS Teachers and Teachers of Switzerland.
EWC is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that currently unites 49 national professional associations of writers and literary translators in 31 European countries. In particular: EU Member States, Iceland and Norway, Belarus, Great Britain, Macedonia, Montenegro and Switzerland. The EWC is the only umbrella organization in Europe that ‘brings together the interests and professional needs of European writers in the text and book industry, all genres’, the press release states.
Along with his work at EWC, Pfister Fetz is president of the Society for the History of Art in Switzerland (SHAS) and the Swiss Culture Social. The latter is an umbrella organization of professional associations aimed at improving the social security of cultural actors in Switzerland. On behalf of the Federal Council, he was specifically responsible for the Covid emergency aid for cultural actors from 2020 to 2022.
With artificial intelligence on everyone’s lips, it’s becoming increasingly important to protect authors and the content they create, Ms. Pfister said in a Feds press release about her new operation.
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