Archive

5 October 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Podium B - Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag, Spui 68, 5e etage

Laksmi Pamuntjak and Hilde Janssen: Living in Indonesia during the 1965-1966 mass killings

3 September 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Podium B - Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag, Spui 68, 5e etage

John Gray meets Bas Heijne: Can We Change the World?

29 May 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Podium B - Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag, Spui 68, 5e etage

Syria, What's Next?

29 April 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Locatie onbepaald

Dealing with Putin

16 March 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Podium B - Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag, Spui 68, 5e etage

Love is a strange disease

5 March 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Podium B - Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag, Spui 68, 5e etage

Jens Christian Grøndahl meets Gustaaf Peek: Love, Lust and Literature

4 February 2015 20:30 - 22:00 uur Podium B - Centrale Bibliotheek Den Haag, Spui 68, 5e etage

What's the price of a human life?

18 January 2015 16:00 - 19:00 uur Theater De Vaillant

Tutuba - A Meet & Greet with Cynthia McLeod

18 January 2015 14:00 - 16:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

The Writers' Fest

18 January 2015 10:00 - 12:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

VPRO's OVT Live

17 January 2015 23:50 - 01:00 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

Dancing into Saturday Night

17 January 2015 23:30 - 23:50 uur Filmhuis - Studio A

The Text of My Life: Bas Heijne

17 January 2015 23:10 - 23:30 uur Filmhuis - Studio A

The Text of My Life: Vamba Sherif

17 January 2015 23:10 - 00:40 uur Filmhuis - zaal 1

Film: A Poet - Unconcealed Poetry (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia, 1999)

Poet Ibrahim Kadir survived the massacre of (alleged) communists by the Suharto government in the sixties. In this film, he plays himself in this political drama about his arrest and imprisonment in Aceh.

17 January 2015 22:55 - 23:50 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Poets in the House

A festive conclusion with poetic presentations. With improvisations on cello by Ernst Reijseger.

17 January 2015 22:35 - 22:55 uur Filmhuis - Studio A

The Text of My Life: Dominique Goblet

17 January 2015 22:30 - 23:20 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2

New Talent in the House!

Five powerful new female stars in the literary firmament talk about their ultimate sense of being at home in specially written commentaries.

17 January 2015 22:15 - 22:35 uur Filmhuis - Studio A

The Text of My Life: Maaza Mengiste

17 January 2015 22:10 - 23:00 uur Filmhuis - zaal 1

The Film Choices of Adriaan van Dis

Film journalist Bert Jansma interviews writer Van Dis about his favourite films. With clips from A Prophet, 2009, about the prison system in France; The Attack (2012), about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964); and much more.

17 January 2015 21:55 - 22:50 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

This is Our Way — Public Discussion

This is our way, and that is their way... How do you deal with one another in an environment where so many cultures live side by side? What language do you speak? What do you do on one another's holidays? Tonight three writers—two of them from countries with long histories of multiculturalism—provide ideas for dos and don'ts. No laws, just manners. The public will discuss these ideas. Do we adopt them or not? WithVamba Sherif, Cynthia McLeod, Bas Heijne and moderator Ruben Maes.

17 January 2015 21:45 - 22:01 uur Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 2

Ian Buruma Introduces Witold Szabłowski

A conversation about the importance of investigative journalism, and the rise of literary non-fiction. Witold Szabłowski is an award-winning Polish "literary" journalist and Ian Buruma is internationally acclaimed as one of the most influential thinkers of our time.

17 January 2015 21:40 - 22:00 uur Filmhuis - Studio A

The Text of My Life: Louise O. Fresco

17 January 2015 21:20 - 21:40 uur Filmhuis - Studio A

The Text of My Life: Stefan Hertmans

17 January 2015 21:00 - 23:50 uur Theater aan het Spui - foyer

Saturday Night Wintercafé

The Wintercafé is the meeting point of the festival, where writers and the audience come together, welcomed by MC Francis Broekhuijsen. Also at the Wintercafé: refreshments, book sales and booksigning at the Paagman book stall, music by DJ Socrates and Ud player Mohamed Ahaddaf, and more.



Booksigning sessions at the Paagman bookstall
21:00 – 21:20
Louise O. Fresco & Stefan Hertmans

21:30 – 21:45
Leela Corman & Dominique Goblet

22:00 – 22:20
Reggie Baay & Karen Armstrong

23:00 – 23:20
Bas Heijne & Ian Buruma