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Watch or listen to our video's and podcasts of the Writers Unlimited programmes since 1995.
K.R. Sing en Karin Amatmoekrim
Writers Series - December 2019
K.R. Sing's Uit de klei van Saramacca tells a Surinamese-Hindustani family history and was the starting point for a conversation with writers K.R. Sing and Karin Amatmoekrim (ao Knipperleven , Unless the father ). They both deschribe the … read more
K.R. Sing, Karin Amatmoekrim, Noraly Beyer
Opening Week van de Afrikaanse Roman
Writers Series - September 2019
Writers Unlimited opened Friday 20 September the fourth Week van de Afrikaanse roman ( Week of the Afrikaans novel) with a festive evening about contemporary Afrikaans literature, language, arts and music. In Studio B of the Centrale Bibliothee… read more
Abdelkader Benali, Deniel Barry, Eben Venter, Frazer Barry, Karin Brynard, Pieter Odendaal, Riana Scheepers, Valda Jansen
Living with Autism - with Filemon Wesselink, Judith Visser and Erik-Jan Harmens
Writers Series - June 2019
How to live with autism? Both Dutch authors Judith Visser and Erik Jan Harmens investigate the impact on daily life when you have to deal with autism. In her book Zondagskind , Judith draws from her own life. As a young adult she was diagnosed … read more
Erik Jan Harmens, Filemon Wesselink, Judith Visser
'Stalin's Daughter' - Biographer Rosemary Sullivan on A Life in the Shadow of a Monster
Writers Series - May 2019
On Wednesday, 22 May, Canadian author and biographer Rosemary Sullivan is guest of honor at B-Unlimited. Michel Krielaars , Russia expert and editor of the NRC 's books section, will be engaging her in conversation about Stalin's Daughter , her … read more
Michel Krielaars, Rosemary Sullivan
Rage Becomes Her - Soraya Chemaly and Sunny Bergman on Women, Inequality and Anger
Writers Series - May 2019
American author and activist Soraya Chemaly and Dutch documentary filmmaker Sunny Bergman entered into a conversation about anger as a tool for positive change. Chemaly wrote the international bestseller Rage Becomes Her , and we know Sunny … read more
Mirthe Frese, Soraya Chemaly, Sunny Bergman
Antjie Krog & Ellen Deckwitz: Dutch East-Indies and South-Afrka, history in poems
Writers Series - February 2019
How can literature serve a greater understanding of history? Ellen Deckwitz (1982) wanted to write a poetry collection about her grandmother's life during the dying days of the Dutch East Indies and decided she could not do so without traveling … read more
Antjie Krog, Ellen Deckwitz, John Jansen van Galen
Feast of Writers
Winternachten 2019
Appearances by singer, cabaret artist and actress Jenny Arean (accompanied on piano by Peter van der Zwaag), singer Mathilde Santing (accompanied by musicians Bastiaan Mulder and Guus Bakker), memory psychologist and author Douwe Draaisma, jazz … read more
Aad Meinderts, Annemarie Estor, Douwe Draaisma, Hans Aarsman, Hassnae Bouazza, Jan van Aken, Jenny Arean, Maartje Meijer, Marja Pruis, Mathilde Santing, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Nelleke Noordervliet, Pauline Krikke, Robert van Asten, Sumai Yahya