Book of My Life: Lize Spit in conversation with Anne Jonker

About 'Oersoep' van Bregje Hofstede.

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Date and time Friday 23 January 2026 22:40 tot 23:00 uur
Location Filmhuis - Studio A
Price 15,- (up to 30 years or Ooievaarspas)
25,- (Early Bird, up to 26 December, after 35,-)
32,50 (DenHaagPas).

Writers tells us about their favourite book: the book that inspires or touches them, that set their artistic, moral or intellectual compass. In short, the book they would recommend to everyone. Interview: Anne Jonker.

Lize Spit speaks about Oersoep by Bregje Hofstede, a book published in 2023 that is described as “autofiction”. Hofstede offers the reader a lyrical reading experience that sometimes feels more like a trip than a novel.Via labor pain, rugby, medieval mystics, and the inner life of a root sprout, Oersoep (The Original Soup) investigates the yearning for self-loss in a disenchanted era.

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Anne Jonker

(1997) is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Leiden University. She researches individuals and groups who do not (or no longer) recognise the system or no longer wish to acknowledge it, and explores themes such as modern alienation, nostalgia and our imagination of the future. She also works at De Situatie, the literary platform of PIP The Hague. During the Writers Unlimited Festival 2026, she will be one of the interviewers for the programme Book of My Life, part of Friday Night Unlimited.
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Lize Spit

(Belgium, 1988) grew up in the Antwerp Kempen region, but has lived in Brussels since 2005. In 2016, she made her successful debut as a novelist with The Melting (2021), a story about a girl named Eva who grows up with two boys from her small Flemish village. Everything changes when the boys reach puberty and present Eva with an impossible choice. The book was translated into fifteen languages and won several awards. In 2020, her second novel Ik ben er niet (I am not there) was published, a story about devotion and betrayal, about two people who are flawed in their own way, but who do their utmost to be noticed, to love and to live. Lize also publishes prose and poetry in various literary magazines and is a columnist for Flemish daily newspaper De Morgen. Her critically acclaimed book Autobiografie van mijn lichaam (Autobiography of My Body, 2024) is a poignant, confrontational, but also loving exploration by a daughter who tries to understand not only her mother, but also her own troubled relationship with her body.

Go to the website of Lize Spit
Instagram: @lizespit
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