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Winternachten 2023 programme

Writers, poets and artists speak about topical themes on 12 February, 12 March, 13, 16 and 21 April in Theater aan het Spui. Go here for programme and ticket sales >>>

150 years abolition slavery Writers, poets, interviews, music and books in Winternachten Festival on Sunday 16 April in Theater aan het Spui, The Hague. Info / tickets >>>

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Sunday 16 April: Writers about slavery and colonialism

Astrid H. Roemer, David Diop, Chika Unigwe, Tessa Leuwsha, Radna Fabias, Neske Beks, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Daphne Huisden and others speak about the meaning of slavery and colonialism now on Sunday 16 …

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Alara Adilow's debut awarded with poetry prize

Alara Adilow won the Herman De Coninck Prize for 'Mythen en stoplichten'! Along with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and Mustafa Stitou, among others, she will perform on Friday 21 April in the Winternachten …

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Raoul de Jong tells about his novel 'Jaguarman' at De Haagse Hogeschool

Raoul de Jong is interview guest of The Lighthouse/De Haagse Hogeschool and the Winternachten festival on Thursday afternoon 13 April. In the conversation (free entrance!), the writer will speak …

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Ukrainian writers in Winternachten Festival

Stanislav Aseyev, who reports on his imprisonment in Donetsk in his book The Torture Camp on Paradise Street , and Tanja Maljartschuk, known for her novel Blue Whale of Memory , situated in Kyiv, …

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Will you join us for dinner on 16 April? Book now!

Between both Winternachten festival programmes on Sunday 16 April, a delicious dish of the day will be available in the foyer of Theater aan het Spui. Will you join us for dinner?

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More and more authors are giving the climate and the climate crisis a prominent role in their work. Think of the recent novels of Eva Meijer, Margaret Atwood and Richard Powers, for example. Few, however, dare to address the subject of climate …

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