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International Literature Festival Utrecht

Pull free short stories by well-known authors from the vending machine- ILFU Storytelling Machine makes summer tour of Utrecht

by one of our members
18 August 202129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, PRESS, SERVICE

This summer, the Netherlands' first Verhalenmachine (Storytelling Machine) will again tour Utrecht hotspots. From the ILFU Verhalenmachine you don't pull out a croquette or a can of soda, but one of hundreds of free short stories. In the coming weeks, the Verhalenmachine will tour busy Utrecht locations, such as the Neude Library, the Uitalage on Steenweg and TivoliVredenburg. This tour is...

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Utrecht literature festival ILFU opens ticket sales for festival week in late September, Featuring Roxane Gay, Angie Thomas, Édouard Louis and Max Porter, among others

by one of our members
16 July 202126 July 2021
3 min read
ACTUAL, FAITS DIVERS, LITERARY, PRESS

Despite persistent corona uncertainty in the cultural sector, International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU) today announces a large part of its programme. The largest literary festival in the Netherlands will take place from 23 September to 2 October 2021 and will programme a host of international writers, poets, musicians and theatre-makers in TivoliVredenburg. On 25 September, the festival theme #WhyFictionMatters will include the French...

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The 38th Night of Poetry continues.

by one of our members
11 June 202130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, PRESS

The Night is back! Last year, unfortunately, we had to skip because of untidy corona developments, but this year the 38th edition of the illustrious Night will still take place. For now, still in a modified form, as there is no green light to sit in a full house again on 2 October at the moment. During this 'limited edition' in...

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Jordi Lammers, or: the secret miracle of a Utrecht Literature Festival #ILFU17

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 May 201726 October 2018
5 min read
For members only, LITERARY, Literature House, PREMIUM, SPECIALS

And then there turns out to be a festival theme after all. Comes all by itself. Perhaps not thought of beforehand by the management of the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU), but after three days of immersion crystal clear. Writing is about that about which we do not speak. During the last festival night, Saturday 13 May, I immersed myself for the occasion in a section that allows 'Utrecht' to...

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Necessary and wonderful glimpse into the Chinese soul thanks to Utrecht festival #ILFU17

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 May 201730 March 2022
4 min read
LITERARY, Literature House, PREMIUM, SPECIALS

Good timing by the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU) to put China at the centre of this year's edition. Just in time before the Chinese have connected the Betuwelijn to their own railway network on their own initiative, with their well-known decisiveness. High time to get to know the Chinese soul, it seems to me, and that does not succeed immediately....

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Nell Zink: 'Writing is only good when it sounds good and doesn't... hurt'

by A Quattro Mani
28 April 201629 March 2022
7 min read
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She came, saw and conquered. Until recently, Nell Zink was almost the embodiment of the cliché image of the poor writer, alone in an attic room. But when American writer Jonathan Frantzen touted her work, she grew into literary hype in no time. Her publisher gave her a six-figure advance. From nobody to 'Her Nellness' -...

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Meena Kandasamy: militant like a (Tamil) tiger

by A Quattro Mani
25 April 20162 August 2020
6 min read
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She is small and petite, but as militant as a (Tamil) tiger. Indian writer Meena Kandasamy (1984) prefers to break with all conventions, and the word is her weapon. No Bollywood Anyone who thinks, based on the cover and the author's name, that The Gypsy Goddess is a sweet 'Bollywood novel' will be deceived. Meena Kandasamy's novel is about a true-life...

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The Linda. but about beheadings and suicide bombings

by A Quattro Mani
24 April 201630 March 2022
8 min read
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That there is an extremist magazine about burnings and beheadings, and that rich Britons have four-storey basements built under their houses for a private cinema or bowling alley - we learned a lot last night at the International Literature Festival Utrecht (ILFU). The programme of the Saturday night of the ILFU was as richly varied as that of the first evening. The...

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Filter Translation Award 2016 to translator Günter Grass

by A Quattro Mani
23 April 201630 March 2022
5 min read
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Jan Gielkens has won the Filter Translation Prize 2016 for his translation of The Words of Grimm by Günter Grass. The prize of ten thousand euros rewards the most exceptional translation achievement of the past year. Grass's novel, published last year by Meulenhoff, places high demands on the reader and the translator, the jury felt. 'Deftly navigates Gielkens'...

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Harvey's hand only half full

by A Quattro Mani
22 April 201630 March 2022
4 min read
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Visitors either thought it was 'very cool' or they thought it was 'absolutely nothing' - PJ Harvey's reading, the opening act at tonight's International Literature Festival Utrecht, evoked totally opposite reactions. Rock diva PJ Harvey is not only a musician, but also a visual artist and poet. At ILFU, as the festival has been called since this year, she read from her...

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Down with the novel pessimism

by A Quattro Mani
19 April 201630 March 2022
5 min read
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In times of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, what power does the novel still have? Every so often, fiction is declared dead, but the International Literature Fesitval Utrecht (formerly City2Cities), which takes place this coming weekend in the former post office on the Neude, wants to show that novel pessimists are completely wrong. Nine highlights from the programme. PJ Harvey The Literature House, like last...

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