Mila D. Aguilar recently returned from a three-week international writers’ residency at the Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland, which started August 22 and ended September 12, 2005.

The Chateau de Lavigny is maintained by the Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt, which was set up at the behest of Jane Ledig-Rowohlt in honor of her husband, Heinrich Marie, a famed Swiss publisher who was a friend of the most famous American and European writers of his time, among them Nabokov and