(The Netherlands, 1970) is a presenter, producer, actor and voice-over artist specializing in music, literature, arts and culture. After graduating as actor from the Toneelschool Amsterdam he was a member, among others, of the ensemble of the Nationale Toneel. He was a presenter at Amsterdam-based broadcaster AT5 and a radio producer with the KRO on national network NPO Radio 1. He narrates audio books, and was shortlisted for the Storytel Award 2019 for Best Audio Book with his reading of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's novel Grand Hotel Europa. Until last year, he presented on radio station Sublime the daily morning show Sublime Sunrise, the Instagram poetry programme Sublime Smooth and evening show The Sublime Experience. In 2025 he wrote and hosted the tv-series Kringlopen met Francis on regional Dutch broadcaster NH. Broekhuijsen works for Writers Unlimited as festival curator and presenter.

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(Oudenhoorn, NL, 1980) was nominated for the Academy Literature Prize and the Libris Literature Prize for her first novel Zeven pogingen om een geliefde te wekken (Seven Attempts to Wake a Lover). This debut won the Dioraphte Youth Literature Prize, the Golden Owl, and the Prize for Best-Packaged Book. It is about Lioba, an eccentric and unhappy girl who grows up as a semi-orphan with her grandfather in the fictional village of Oudering op Voorne-Putten. When she is found unconscious one day, all kinds of stories make the rounds. The writer herself created the cover and inside illustrations. Like her protagonist, Riem grew up on the islands of South Holland. She studied Dutch in Groningen and London, and one year of Image and Text at Amsterdam's Rietveld Academy. She worked as a Dutch teacher for six years and leads poetry workshops for children and youths. Her poetry debut Alle zeeën zijn geduldig (All Seas are Patient) will be published in 2015.

is one of the leading worldgroove DJs from the Netherlands. He plays just about any kind of music that gets danced to around the world —mixed or unmixed— such as Latin, Afrobeat, Oriental, Balkan Beats, Bollywood, Tropical, Cumbia, Asian Underground, Chaâbi, Kwaito, and Baile Funk. DJ Safri plays throughout this country (and beyond) in all kinds of places, ranging from famous festivals (including Lowlands) to the hottest clubs (Paradiso, Tivoli) and special venues such as museums, as well as at corporate events and private parties. With his deep knowledge of Oriental, Indian, Turkish, North African and Roma dance music, he was co-founder and resident DJ of the Mystic Grooves events at clubs like Rasa, De Melkweg, Tivoli, Paradiso, and at festivals. You can hear a mix by Safri every month on the Concertzender programme "Solta a Franga".