Lara Nuberg

(1990) writes, narrates and produces audio-stories about (colonial) history, identity and the culture of remembrance. She has been published in Dutch daily newspapers and the Indonesian monthly Moesson. Together with the Indonesian writer and visual artist Lala Bohang, she created The Journey of Belonging (2020), a quest for the influence of history on their lives and those of the women in their Indonesian families. In 2021, she appeared as one of the experts in the TV program Het Museum van Nederland (The Museum of the Netherlands). She is also head instructor and coordinator of the educational project Colonial Traces in My Neighbourhood, and is  currently working on her debut novel, Gado Gado, inspired by her own search for identity and belonging (expected in 2025). Early 2025 she will publish, together with Feba Sukmana, a reissue of the letters by Kartini.

Lara Nuberg
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Past events

14 September 2026 19:12-19:12 hrs

OVT Live from Writers Unlimited Festival The Hague

25 January 2025 21:10-22:00 hrs Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Remembrance under Fire

On war, colonialism and identity, with Sinan Çankaya, Lara Nuberg and Maurits de Bruijn. Moderator: Nancy Jouwe.

20 January 2024 22:15-23:15 hrs Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

Old Ties, New Connections: A trip via the Indonesian past to the present

With Robin Block, Ellen Deckwitz, Adriaan van Dis, Lara Nuberg and Maddy Stolk