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'For me, only the text exists' - Alberto Manguel & Hans Goedkoop on black pages #wu13

With a jam-packed programme like Writers Unlimited 2013, it sometimes happens that, even as a professional journalist, despite everything, you end up dropping in somewhere too late, and then just catch a glimpse of something really great. In this case, after the tour de force by Amos Oz and Adriaan van Dis, it was the spoken word performance by Kenyan Ngwatilo Mawiyoo. Mea culpa for that.

Mawiyoo introduced the Forget It! programme. A conversation with Hans Goedkoop (bek...

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Daniel Bertina

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With a jam-packed programme like Writers Unlimited 2013, it sometimes happens that, even as a professional journalist, despite everything, you end up dropping in somewhere too late, and then just catch a glimpse of something really great. In this case, after the tour de force by Amos Oz and Adriaan van Dis, it was the spoken word performance by Kenyan Ngwatilo Mawiyoo. Mea culpa for that.

Mawiyoo introduced the Forget It! programme. A conversation with Hans Goedkoop (bek...

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