Writers Unlimited Winternachten festival 2011

Winternachten 2011

Thu 20 January - Sun 23 January 2011

On these pages you find a retrospective on the Januari 2011 festival in The Hague. You can enjoy video-recordings of the literature programmes.

Writers Unlimited this year offered Great Expectations; expectations running high of literature, of art.

Writers meeting writers, they spoke out, they spoke their minds, they showed what the imagination is capable of, they took the audience where no professor, priest or politician can. There was music, there was film, there was a great number of writers and there were partners in adversity, people who know how important art and literature are in life.

Retrospect

Thursday 20 January 2011

16:30 - 18:00

Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Oxfam Novib - PEN Awards

Winternachten is pleased that Oxfam Novib and Dutch PEN are announcing the winners of the Oxfam Novib PEN Awards at the festival. One of the laureates will come to The Hague to collect his or her …

20:00 - 22:00

Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Winternachten Lecture - Tim Parks

'I have a problem with the growing internationalisation of literature,' the British writer Tim Parks recently argued in an interview with Bas Heijne in NRC Handelsblad. On Thursday 20 January 2011 he …

Friday 21 January 2011

20:00 - 01:30

Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

Winternacht 1

Tonight Writers Unlimited is all about literature. Writers from all corners of the globe come to The Hague to meet each other on the stage and speak their minds. The discussions invariably come from …

Saturday 22 January 2011

14:00 - 16:30

Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

NRC Reading Club Live

In this 6th edition of the successful series NRC Reading Club Live columnists and NRC editors Elsbeth Etty, Frits Abrahams and writer Sanneke van Hassel together and with the audience read Haruki …

20:00 - 01:30

Theater aan het Spui & Filmhuis Den Haag

Winternacht 2

Tonight we'll go in search of the limits of the imagination. The writers at the festival will weigh the pros and cons of their Great Expectations against reality. Because the imagination brings forth …

Sunday 23 January 2011

10:00 - 12:00

Dudok

VPRO OVT Live

As usual the VPRO history programme OVT broadcasts from cafe Dudok as part of Writers Unlimited - Winternachten Festival The Hague. This time the programme will go in search of great expectations and …

13:00 - 21:00

Filmhuis Den Haag

Caribbean Film Programme

This year the festival gives a lot of space to Caribbean films. The first part of the programma is on Saturday evening in Winternacht 2. The second part is this afternoon, in Zaal 6 of the Filmhuis. …

15:00 - 17:00

Villa Escamp

Villa Escamp Literair: Abeer Soliman and Iman Humaydan

Two writers from the Arab World, Abeer Soliman from Egypt, and Iman Humaydan from Lebanon. Both are socially engaged, and concerned with the position of women in their countries. Abeer Soliman has …