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Jowi Schmitz

Jowi Schmitz schrijft (kinder)boeken, artikelen, filmscripts en korte verhalen. Haar YA boek Weg won de Dioraphte Literatuur prijs oftewel prijs voor beste Jongerenboek van het jaar, haar kinderboek Ik heet Olivia en daar kan ik ook niks aan doen (Lemniscaat) wordt binnenkort verfilmd. Ze schrijft graag interdisciplinair: tussen feit en fictie. Maar dan echt. Ze werkt op dit moment, behalve aan het filmscript, aan diverse artikelen, een documentaire en aan een nieuw kinderboek (8+) met als werktitel: Nachtwachter.

NS presents the first train thriller on WhatsApp. Authors Jowi Schmitz and Louis Stiller test the experience

'The first Dutch WhatsApp thriller' was launched at the end of January. For five days, a select group of screen readers could follow this 'real time' story. Writers Jowi Schmitz and Louis Stiller were among them, app'ing with each other about this new form of storytelling. Sunday Louis > Suddenly a whole pile of names in my whatsapp (including 'paps' and 'mums'). Jowi > I give them... 

Irony and purity want to stand side by side in 'Free Mason' by Tjon Rockon #International Choice

It takes guts: walking down Rotterdam's Kruiskade with a big wooden cross and shouting "Mason was a fish!" shouting. The drug-addicted residents of St Paul's Church, the dishwashers at Chinese restaurants and waiting passengers at the tram stop look on in bewilderment. Sandro Lima shouts lyrics about Mason the saviour like a possessed religious maniac. Moments before, we are at... 

'I like beer' in C'est du Chinois sounds quite nice #dekeuze.

The teachers recite it, a whistle sounds. The audience mimics it, like wax in the hands of the five Chinese on stage. Anyone who walks into the performance C'est du Chinois walks into a Mandarin language lesson. An effective language lesson besides, you understand the two small families-they have only been in the country for four months but plan to... 

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