A Writer's Dinner with author Barbaros Altug from Istanbul

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The Vadercentrum Adam (Father Centre) is a pearl in the Laak district of The Hague. It is the place where men - and also more and more women - can go every day and get countless opportunities to develop themselves. eIt is a meeting place, but also a repair-café, a give away shop, a restaurant and a course centre for language, computer and sewing lessons, among other things. Host: Hassnae Bouazza.

Literature will also have a place here: Friday 24 January everyone is welcome from 17:00 at a literary three-course dinner on the theme of Turkey and Turkish literature. Volunteers will prepare a meal for you in the style of the Middle East. In between the courses you will meet the Turkish author Barbaros Altug. At the invitation of Writers  Unlimited, he lives in The Hague for a month, to write his new novel. He talks about his books, about the history of his country and about Turkish life outside of Turkey.

Admission - including dinner - is free. Capacity is limited, so reservations are required! The food is halal, and on request vegetarian or vegan - please mention on entry. Reception from 17.00 hours. The conversations will be in English, with translation into Dutch.

Vadercentrum Adam, Jonckbloetplein 24, 2523 AR The Hague

Program in collaboration with Vadercentrum Adam and Be Mobile Create Together

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Date and time Friday 24 January 2020 from 17:30 to 20:00 hrs
Location Vadercentrum Adam

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Barbaros Altuğ

(Turkey, 1966) is a writer and journalist who has been published in various Turkish newspapers and magazines. A collection of his articles, Some Like It Black, was published in 2012. In his 2014 novella We’re Fine Here, three young Turkish men emigrate from their country after the Gezi protests. His novel Wounds in My Soul, about the Armenian Genocide, is slated to be published in 2020. He is working on a novel that portrays four generations of a Berlin family between the years of 1960 and 2010, as well as on a novella about the lives of intellectuals who fled Turkey after the attempted 2016 coup d'etat. Altuğ has been selected for a residency at Writers Unlimited, January 2020, as part of the exchange programme Be Mobile, Create Together.
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Hassnae Bouazza

(Morocco, 1973) is a journalist, columnist, translator, researcher and producer. She publishes in various media (including Dutch national daily newspaper NRC and women's magazine Linda); runs her own online magazine for culture lovers, Aicha Qandisha. She compiled a story collection about Arab women, Achter de sluier (Behind the Veil, 1999); 2013 saw the publication of her book Arabieren kijken (Looking at Arabs), about "ordinary" people in the Arab world. She made TV programs for various broadcasters, including the documentary series Seks en de Zonde (Sex and Sin). Together with Michelin-starred chef Soenil Bahadoer, she wrote the culinary books Spicy Chef (2020) and Streetfood (2022). She published two further books in 2022: Een koffer vol citroenen (A Suitcase Full of Lemons), a requiem for and portrait of her mother, and Arbeidsmigranten in Nederland (Migrant Labourers in the Netherlands).
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