Margot Dijkgraaf
(The Netherlands, 1960) is a literary critic, writer, curator, interviewer, debate leader and "ambassador between France and the Netherlands in the field of literature", as a French ambassador once said. She has been writing about literature for some 30 years, mainly for the NRC daily. She published books on French and European literature, on Hella S. Haasse and Cees Nooteboom. Her In de voetsporen van mijn grootvader (2021) is an autobiographical search for her literary genes. Before that, she published Met Parijse pen. Literaire omzwervingen (in collaboration with photographer Bart Koetsier, 2020), which takes readers to Paris for walks in the footsteps of famous Dutch and French writers. She was joint artistic curator of the Netherlands' Guest of Honour role at the 2024 Leipzig Book Fair with German journalist Bettina Baltschev.
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Past events
Books Unlimited: Mohsin Hamid
One interview. Meet international top writer and his recent bestseller Exit West.
The Text of my Life: Stine Jensen
Writers present their favourite texts from world literature and explain why a particular poem, novel excerpt, or song lyric influenced their life and work.
Turkish literature home and abroad
Margot Dijkgraaf talks to the Turkish writer and journalist Asli Tohumcu, the Turkish- Dutch writer Sadik Yemni and the Turkish-Dutch poet Tuncay Çinibulak. In English.
Two Houses
Margot Dijkgraaf talks to Egyptian Alaa Al Aswany, presents the Dutch translation of the much talked-about novel Omaret Yacoubian. Michiel van Kempen wrote Vluchtwegen (Ways of Fleeing), set in an apartment building in the Bijlmermeer. English spoken.
The world, the writer and the philosopher
Writer P.F. Thomése and philosopher Bas Haring on autonomous writing and the position of the philosopher in society. Chaired by Margot Dijkgraaf. Dutch spoken.
