Annelies Verbeke
(Belgium, 1976) writes novels, film scripts and plays. Her debut novel Slaap! (Sleep!) was published in 2003, followed by three novels (Reus, Vissen redden, Dertig dagen); four collections of short stories; a collection of journalism pieces, Wakker (Awake, together with photographer Charlie De Keersmaecker); and the graphic novella Tirol Inferno, written in iambic pentameter and rhyme and co-created with illustrator Klaas Verplancke. Her work has been translated into 26 languages and won various prizes, such as the F. Bordewijk Prize, the Opzij Literature Prize, the J.M.A. Biesheuvel Prize, and the NRC Handelsblad Readers Prize. She has also written several plays and film scripts, and worked with various theatre companies, especially Rotterdam-based Wunderbaum. In 2023, she published short stories in Koude soep (Cold Soup) and JIJ (You), an anthology of you-stories. January 2024 will see the premiere of Wunderbaum speel live (online gaat het mis), a theatre production by Wunderbaum with a stage text by Annelies Verbeke.
Past events
Book of My Life with Annelies Verbeke
About Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Fleeting Time
Connie Palmen and Annelies Verbeke about how writers speed up or slow down time. Moderator: Mira Feticu
Fixdit - about the legendary Nawal el Saadawi
Live podcast recording from writers collective Fixdit, about the legendary Nawal el Saadawi: writer, physician and feminist in 20th century Egypt.
