Watch, Listen, Read: Writers Unlimited 2024
Ode to Remco Campert & The Hague Literary Prizes Ceremony
Writers Unlimited 2024
To grandly celebrate the life and work of Remco Campert, an ode to him took place on the final day of the 2024 Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague, preceding the award ceremony of The Hague Literature Prizes. The event was …
read moreAad Meinderts, Alma Mathijsen, Anjet Daanje, Benjamin Herman, Blue Moon, Corrie van Binsbergen, Ellen ten Damme, Jan Kuijper, Judith Uyterlinde, Kees 't Hart, Kees van Kooten, Lucky Fonz III, Maartje Meijer, Marjoleine de Vos, Mirjam van Hengel, Ramsey Nasr, Ronelda S. Kamfer, Rozalie Hirs, Saskia Bruines, Tjibbe Veldkamp, Tomas Lieske
Shaved Ice and Afrodance - Zindzi Zevenbergen and Precious Alvares (10+)
Writers Unlimited 2024
First the adventurous story about the first shaved-ice vendor in Suriname, then letting loose in an Afrodance workshop led by one of the best African street style dancers of The Netherlands: Precious Alvares, winner of the Red Bull Dance Your Style …
read morePrecious Alvares, Tirsa With, Zindzi Zevenbergen
De Volkskrant Leesclub Live on Remco Campert's oeuvre
Writers Unlimited 2024
De Volkskrant Leesclub Live focused on the diverse oevre of Remco Campert, especially his novel Het satijnen hart ( The Satin Heart ), and allowed the audience to get their questions answered by an amazing writers' panel of expert enthusiasts: Jan …
read moreBert Wagendorp, Frank van Bommel, Frans van Deursen, Frederique van Rijn, Jan Mulder, Mark Nieuwenhuis, Mirjam van Hengel, Wilma de Rek
Everything You Never Asked About Adoption
Writers Unlimited 2024
In Everything you never asked about Adoption , journalist Sharid Alles spoke with writer Ennatu Domingo about her book Burnt Eucalyptus Wood , her quest for answers to her questions about identity, and her connection with her birthplace, …
read moreEnnatu Domingo, Eva Cleven, Sharid Alles
Opening Night Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague
Writers Unlimited 2024
Freedom to speak or write is important but impossible for many. The festival opened with "human voices" (the theme of this edition) from The Netherlands and beyond: a unique lineup of famous writers speaking out. This was one of those evenings of …
read moreAdriaan van Dis, Aminatta Forna, Burhan Sönmez, Celeste Ng, Daniëlle Zawadi, Emilienne Malfatto, Hashem Kabreet, Jan van Zanen, Jörgen Tjon A Fong, Judith Uyterlinde, Sholeh Rezazadeh
Chat GPT - The New Bestseller Author
Writers Unlimited 2024
Humans and machines always seemed to reinforce each other. Since the advent of AI and a tool such as Chat GPT, the relationship between humans and machines has been on edge. What is the human voice? And what does AI's influence on the human voice …
read moreBas Haring, Hanna Bervoets, Ilyaz Nasrullah, Oumaima Hajri
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Poetry event
Writers Unlimited 2024
Is the lyrical voice a chatbot confidently making statements based on an outdated dataset? Maarten van der Graaff, who curated Garbage In, Garbage Out , asked these poets to listen carefully to chatbots skimming the Internet to answer our …
read moreAstrid Lampe, Dewi de Nijs Bik, Maarten van der Graaff, Ronelda S. Kamfer, Simone Atangana Bekono, Zheng Xiaoqiong
Picture This -- Words Versus Images -- with Sacha Bronwasser and Emilienne Malfatto
Writers Unlimited 2024
Sacha Bronwasser is an art historian as well as a writer. Emilienne Malfatto is a war photographer besides a writer. In both of their work, the language of the image plays an important role. What can you express in pictures that you cannot express …
read moreEmilienne Malfatto, Margot Dijkgraaf, Sacha Bronwasser
Old Ties, New Connections: A trip via the Indonesian past to the present
Writers Unlimited 2024
The ties between The Netherlands and Indonesia is a complicated history, and has strongly influenced generations of people with roots in the Dutch Indies. How do writers from generations born in The Netherlands view the land of their (grand)parents? …
read moreAdriaan van Dis, Ellen Deckwitz, Lara Nuberg, Maddy Stolk, Robin Block
Writer and journalist Tatjana Almuli at Haagse Hogeschool
Writers Unlimited 2024
Tatjana Almuli was the guest interviewee of The Lighthouse/De Haagse Hogeschool and the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival on Thursday afternoon, 27 February 2024. Originally, the talk was to take place during the festival on …
read moreSamira Çiftçioğlu, Tatjana Almuli
Captor and Captive
Writers Unlimited 2024
Power and powerlessness are rewarding themes in literature, drawn from extreme situations in history and real life. Emilienne Malfatto wrote the confrontational novel Le colonel ne dort pas ( The Colonel Doesn't Sleep ), about the power imbalance …
read moreBurhan Sönmez, Emilienne Malfatto, Sophie Derkzen