Tommy Wieringa
(The Netherlands, 1967) spent a great deal of his youth in the Antilles. He had his breakthrough in 2005 with his novel Joe Speedboat. According to the media, his 2009 novel Caesarion earnied him a place among "The Greatest Ten of Dutch Literature." Dit zijn de namen (These are the Names) appeared in 2013, about the rough journey of a group of refugees. Wieringa gave music and poetry performances and made television programs. His essays and columns appear in various newspapers and magazines. Recent publications are the short story collections Dit is mijn moeder (This is my mother, 2019), Totdat het voorbij is (Until it is over, 2019), the columns collection Gedachten over onze tijd (Thoughts on our times, 2020), the novel Nirwana (2023) and the war chronicle Konvooi (Convoy, 2024). For this last novel he travelled with a convoy to Ukraine, that he supports with his activities for the Protect Ukraine organisation.
Past events
Book of My Life: Tommy Wieringa in conversation with Abdelkader Benali
Over Train Dreams by Denis Johnson.
The Dutch on the Couch: Tommy Wieringa
A country sees the doctor — the Netherlands is suffering from burnout, we are working ourselves to pieces. If in theory, one can lead a perfect life, should we do so? The Professor of psychiatry and, as patient NL, the writer.
In the Mirror of Refugees
The image that refugees have of Europe does not match the reality they experience upon arrival. Europe is a fiction.
The Dutch Spring
The Arab Spring created a stir in the Netherlands. Perhabs secretly we long for a Dutch Spring too. What would our country look like after such a spring? Kader Abdolah, Nazmiye Oral and Tommy Wieringa will tell us. Host: Naima Azough. In Dutch.
