First names festival authors: reading tips and early bird tickets
Meet top international authors Elif Shafak (foto), Andrey Kurkov, Asta Olivia Nordenhof and Alvina Chamberland at the grand festival evenings Friday and Saturday Night Unlimited (24 and 25 January 2025)! Take advantage of early booking discounts now.
Here are the first names of festival authors participating in the Writers Unlmited International Literature Festival The Hague (23-36 January 2025). For 25€ (early bird price!) you will go to one of the grand festival evenings Friday or Saturday Night Unlimited. Everyone up to 30 years old pays 15€ per night.
Asta Olivia Nordenhof from Denmark recently caused a literary sensation and established her international name as a novelist with Money to Burn (2024), the start of a seven-part series. Each volume will be related to the fire on the cruise ship the Scandinavian Star in 1990. A tragedy that still haunts Danish minds. In January 2025, The Devil Book will be published as the second volume of the series. Nordenhof performs 24 January 2025 during Friday Night Unlimited.
Reading tip! Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof.
Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American author of literary autofiction novels. Through poetic prose, incisive social commentary and gallows humour, her novel Love the World or Get Killed Trying (2024) delves into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman approaching 30. The reader follows her journey through the wilderness of Iceland and across the boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she explores questions of eternity, sexuality, desire, death, love and how hard it is to stay soft when you are a relentless target of straight men's secret lust and open dislike. Chamberland performs 25 January 2025 at Saturday Night Unlimited.
Reading Tip! Love the World or Get Killed Trying by Alvina Chamberland.
Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian author world-famous for the mix of harsh reality and absurd humour in his novels and nonfiction books. In 2024, Kurkov published The Silver Bone, the first volume of The Kyiv Mysteries, his series of crime novels in historical settings. The second part The Stolen Heart will be published in 2025.
Diary of an Invasion (2022) and the subsequent Our Daily War are collections of Kurkov's articles and commentaries, as well as remarkable documents of a brilliant writer in the midst of a 21st-century war. Kurkov will perform 25 January 2025 at Saturday Night Unlimited.
Reading tips! Our Daily War and The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov.
Elif Shafak is an award-winning Turkish-British bestselling author and an important critical voice in world literature with a vast body of novels, essays and nonfiction. Key themes in her work include injustice, gender, sexuality and the position of women. There Are Rivers in the Sky is an enchanting novel set around the rivers Tigris and Thames. Shafak performs 24 January 2025 at Friday Night Unlimited.
Reading tip! There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak.
You choose your own route in Friday Night Unlimited (24 January 2025) and Saturday Night Unlimited (25 January 2025) between 20:00 and 00:30 hours along about 20 talks, readings, interviews, films and music performances with well-known writers, poets and artists from home and abroad. The performances will take place on five The Hague stages in Theater aan het Spui and the adjacent Filmhuis Den Haag. A ticket gives you access to all performances on that particular evening. The final programme will be announced in early December 2024.
Book tickets here via the website of Het Nationale Theater:
FRIDAY NIGHT UNLIMITED, 24 January 2025, 20:00-0:30 hrs, Theater aan het Spui/Filmhuis Den Haag
SATURDAY NIGHT UNLIMITED, 25 January 2025, 20:00-0:30 hrs, Theater aan het Spui/Filmhuis Den Haag
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