9 January 2019
South African poet and author Antjie Krog will be living and working in Amsterdam from 21 January to 20 February, at the invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. As well as being a writer worthy of the Nobel Prize for literature, Krog is a consummate literary performer. During her stay she will give a series of performances in the Netherlands and Belgium, including appearances during Poetry Week.
9 January 2019
From January until July 2019, Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun (Damascus, 1979) will stay at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Amsterdam as writer in residence. During his stay he will be working on his fifth book of poetry in Arabic, an extensive text of life, love in the wartime, memories that became home, and the exile as background of the new wave of literature.
(Issue XXVI, 2017)
A special edition enumerating Dutch poetry over the past century till date has been…
(Cossee, 2019)
Much has been written about the treatment of depression, less about its meaning.…
(Prometheus, 2018)
In Other People’s Mothers, Mirthe van Doornik tells the story of two sisters, Kine and…
(Leopold, 2017)
A schoolgirl suffering from a burnout tries to understand and process her traumatic…
5 November 2018
Only when I’m standing in the middle of the Fugard Theater in Capetown, with in my hands the colourful programme of the Open Book Festival, do I start to realise what an enormous festival this is. This is a place where hundreds of writers, poets, activists, dancers, playwrights and journalists come together to give readings, do performances, book signings and have discussions with each other and the audience.
