Who's Afraid of Youth

Pupils from schools in The Hague present their own best poems. They've had over ten hours of poety lessons behind them. Tonight poet Rodaan Al Galidi performs with them. Programme in cooperation with Huis van Gedichten. In Dutch.

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Date and time Friday 18 January 2013 20:00 tot 20:55 uur
Location Filmhuis - zaal 1

Pupils from schools in The Hague present their best poems. They've had over ten hours of poety lessons behind them. After a lot of writing and deleting, expanding and cutting they now bring their very best poems. Programme in cooperation with Huis van Gedichten. In Dutch.

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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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