'There is no doubt about it: Peter Verhelst has a breathtaking oeuvre. Tongkat, Zwerm, Nieuwe sterrenbeelden, Zing zing, this summer the collection 2050. He is the deserved laureate of the Constantijn Huygens Prize,' said the jury. Verhelst will receive the literary prize of the City of The Hague during the Winternachten festival on Sunday 23 January 2022.
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When reading Toni Morrison's novel Home, its opening sentence immediately struck us: Whose house is this? For the new Winternachten festival (19-23 januari 2022), we decided to take 'the house' as a metaphor and to explore it from different angles: the house of the family, the house of society, of democracy, of literature.
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Searching for a key image to go with the theme 'house/home' of the Winternachten Festival 2022 (January 19-23), we found the strong photo series Metamorphosis (2018) by Lois Cohen and Indiana Roma Voss. On the poster image Vivienne van Leeuwen designed with their Power Ranger photo from this series, this female role model asks the core question of the festival program: Whose House is This?
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Now online: a third episode of The Asterisk Conversations* with esteemed poet, playwright, essayist and award winning author Claudia Rankine ('Just Us: An American Conversation', 'Citizen: An American Lyric'). Enjoy the latest podcast by philosopher and author Simon(e) van Saarloos. Now available in your fav podcast app and our site.
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For our (online) programme Erfstukken (Inheritance) and its print publication we filmed conversations with and readings by writers Eva Meijer and Babeth Fonchie, and illustrators Fleur Kotten and Jessica Bacuna at bookstore De Vries Van Stockum in Den Haag. View the readings of their moving letters addressed at other generations here.
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On March 20th of this year, the Turkish president Erdoğan left the Istanbul Convention, the treaty to protect women and LGBTQI+ persons against domestic and sexual violence, without involvement of the parliament. Writers collective Fixdit and Writers Unlimited jointly wrote a pressing letter to Mark Rutte, Sigrid Kaag and Stef Blok with the urgent appeal to do everything in their power to prevent Turkey from neglecting the fight against violence and to remind President Erdoğan of his obligations to promote violence against women.
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