Winternachten Story Festival at the Dakota: Oma Greet Leet

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The Dakota Theatre's honorary grandmother dived into the local news and invited people behind the Hague headlines. She asked them any and all kinds of questions. This edition of her talk show in Theater Dakota had a special focus on stories, authors and books, including as special guest the writer and poet Rodaan al Galidi.

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Date and time Saturday 19 January 2019 from 19:30 to 21:00 hrs
Location Theater en Filmhuis Dakota

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Rodaan Al Galidi

(Iraq, 1971) fled his country in 1998 after completing architecture studies, was given asylum in the Netherlands and settled there legally in 2007. Since then he has published poetry, novels and collections of his columns. He received the 2000 El Hizjra literature award and the 2011 Literature Prize of the European Union. In 2013 he published Liever niet, antwoordt de liefde (Maybe Not, Was Love's Reply), an anthology of refreshing love poetry. His novel Hoe ik talent voor het leven kreeg (Two Blankets, Three Sheets) tells of his experiences as an asylum seeker in the Netherlands. Al Galidi published the short story collection Duizend-en-een-nachtmerries (A Thousand and One Nightmares) in 2017 and a poem collection Neem de titel serieus (Take the title seriously) in 2018.
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Oma Greet

holds a permanent spot in the programme of Theatre Dakota with her own lightly journalistic and homey talk show Oma Greet Leet Night. She invites guests from The Hague who've been in the news and asks that what nobody else would dare to ask. On Saturday, 19 January, Oma Greet presents the evening programme of the Winternachten Story Festival at the Dakota.
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