Writers Series

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Thursday 26 September 2024:

Met: Benzokarim

Wednesday 9 October 2024

James Baldwin, A Son of America: In honor of James Baldwin's 100th birthday

'Not everything we face we can change. But we cannot change anything without first facing it.' - James Baldwin In this installment of the Writers Series, we turn our attention to one of America's …

Met: Lexter Woodley, Simone Atangana Bekono, Tracy Metz

Retrospect: 7 September 2024

Spotlight Festival: free sneak peek Writers Unlimited 2025 with spoken word and music in Amare

At the Spotlight Festival, on Saturday afternoon September 7 2024, from 14:00 to 14:30 at Amare in The Hague (free admission), Zaïre Krieger (spoken word) and XILLAN (music) will perform a sneak …

Met: Francis Broekhuijsen, XILLAN, Zaïre Krieger

Retrospect: 1 May 2024

Recap: War or peace: Sasha Filipenko and Mikhail Sjisjkin in conversation with Eva Hartog

'It hurts to be Russian.' So begins dissident Mikhail Shishkin, son of a Ukrainian mother and a Russian father, the book he had to write when war was declared on Ukraine. In " My Russia " (to be …

Met: Eva Hartog, Michaïl Sjisjkin, Sasja Filipenko

Retrospect: 10 April 2024

Between East and West: A postcolonial journey of discovery with Alfred Birney and Ellen Deckwitz

In this episode of the Writers Series, Alfred Birney , author of, among others, '' De tolk van Java'' (The Interpreter of Java), will go into conversation with Ellen Deckwitz about his new book, …

Met: Alfred Birney, Dewi de Nijs Bik, Ellen Deckwitz

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Over Writers Series

Next to our annual Winternachten International Literature Festival The Hague, Writers Unlimited presents Writers Series-programmes in several venues throughout the city of The Hague.

Writers, poets, thinkers and scientists discuss current subjects in literature, arts, science and society. On these pages you find the forthcoming programmes, and you can watch and listen to registrations of the programmes we presented since 2006.