Winternachten 2023
Sun 12 February - Fri 21 April 2023

All the World's a Book
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances..."
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
This 2023 Winternachten festival edition carried the motto All the world's a book. Why do writers write and readers read books? To get a grip on the world. In a novel, you can imagine a different reality. Not surprising in these turbulent times, and for Winternachten's writers and readers, perhaps even a necessity.
While the war in Ukraine deeply affects the Ukrainian people, Europe and the whole world, and various crises dramatically change Earth, people continue to write and read books: to understand, to change and to escape. And sometimes even to laugh. The whole world can be found in literature, in a book.
Winternachten 2023 presented topical themes to authors and visitors by readings, interviews and debate. Such as the upcoming commemoration of the abolition of slavery, 150 years ago, by The Netherlands in Suriname and in the Antilles islands. How did slavery enter the literary imagination, and what influence did it have on the development of language and literature? How do authors in a war-ridden country, Ukraine, write about their lives? How does an author create a new world in his books, and why? And how does the depletion of Earth become audible and palpable in language and poetry?
Retrospect
with a.o.
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Aad Meinderts
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Aaron Bangudi
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Alara Adilow
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Aleksandr Skorobogatov
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Amara van der Elst
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Angel ArunA
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Arturo den Hartog
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Asha Karami
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Astrid H. Roemer
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Babs Gons
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Britney Lindo
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Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Caro Derkx
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Chelsy Valentina
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Chika Unigwe
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Daphne Huisden
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David Diop
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Dean Bowen
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Dominique De Groen
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Donald Niedekker
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Farah Karimi
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Fiep van Bodegom
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Fleur Speet
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Floris Akkerman
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Franka Hummels
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Geert Jan Hahn
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Hasan Gök
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Hashem Kabreet
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Hassnae Bouazza
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Holland Baroque
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Ianthe Mosselman
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Irina Baldini
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Jeremy Jordan Rosa
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Jina Sumedi
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Johan van Dijke
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Kaja Wolffers
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Lisa Weeda
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Lucretia Starke
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LUWTEN
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Maarten van der Graaff
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Maria Vlaar
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Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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Mariëlle Vavier
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Marion Bloem
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Marjan Slob
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Martin Rombouts
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Martine Woudt
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Marwin Vos
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Maxime Garcia Diaz
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Meral Polat
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Mustafa Stitou
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Nazrina Rodjan
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Neske Beks
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Niña Weijers
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Obe Alkema
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Oleg Lysenko
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Orchestre Partout
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Rabin Baldewsingh
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Rachel Cusk
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Rachida Lamrabet
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Radna Fabias
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Raoul de Jong
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Sarita Bajnath
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Sasha Marianna Salzmann
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Saskia Bruines
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Shantie Singh
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Simone Peek
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Sinan Can
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Sophie van Winden
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Stanislav Aseyev
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Tanja Maljartschuk
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Tessa Leuwsha
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Willie Darktrousers
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