Ianthe Mosselman

(1989) studied Comparative Dutch Language Sciences in Amsterdam and Berlin. She makes programmes on art, literature and culture and has interviewed several domestic and foreign writers on stage at De Balie in Amsterdam. She also worked for the European Press Prize. She believes that art does not have to be useful, conversations should be allowed to be abrasive and that there should be more room for women in the public debate. She also thinks you have to be frugal about beautiful things and so has for years organised the Gesprek Voor de Dam and programmes on forgotten literary works. Her debut was published in 2022: the literary essay Al die liefde en woede (All that love and anger) in which, after the birth of her child, she wonders why it is that she feels anger alongside joy and love.