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Het Boekenbal. Alles moet je een keer in je leven gedaan hebben

Daar stond ik dan. Naast DE RODE LOPER. In Het PERSVAK. Alles moet je een keer in je leven gedaan hebben en dit was MIJN MOMENT. Het BOEKENBAL in De STADSSCHOUWBURG die vanwege de carrière van de baas omgedoopt is in ITA. Links van mij TEAM VOLKSKRANT, rechts van mij een schattige KRULLENBOL van de LINDA en daartussendoor een journalist… 

Best Beluisterde Cultuurpers Podcast: Geen hypes meer, maar mooie boeken (over uitgeven, en waarom klein fijn is)

Toen op 12 maart van dit jaar de longlist van de Man Booker International Prize bekend werd gemaakt vielen twee dingen op. Ten eerste natuurlijk dat onze eigen Tommy Wieringa een plekje op deze lijst van in het Engels-vertaalde fictie had veroverd. Nog opvallender was het dat elf van de dertien titels verschenen waren bij kleine, onafhankelijke uitgevers. Die ontwikkeling… 

Freek and Hella de Jonge hold open house at Groninger Museum

Finally, the Groninger Museum has got it together. For six weeks, you can admire Hella and Freek de Jonge at the museum. Not only their art, but also the people behind the works. Art meets performance art meets reality show. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A glimpse into the couple's kitchen; also literally, because Hella goes into the... 

Festival BRU-TAAL: 5 reasons to travel to Bruges now

See, the Belgians do that well. When a new literary festival comes along, it immediately lasts more than a whole week instead of two days. Today marks the start of the first edition of the International Literature Festival BRU-TAAL. Five reasons to travel to 'the Venice of the North' in the coming days: Bruges. 9 days, 2 weekends, almost 59 writers,... 

Prize season opened in style: critique on shortlist ECI Literature Prize 2016

The jury of the ECI Literature Prize has brought criticism upon itself with an idiosyncratic choice for the shortlist. In choosing Connie Palmen with Jij zegt het [You say it], Bert Natter with Golberg, Marja Pruis with Zachte riten [Gentle rites], Tonnus Oosterhoff with Op de rok van het universum [On the skirt of the universe], Arnon Grunberg with Moedervlekken [Mother stains] and Martin Michael Driessen with Rivieren [Rivers], the jury ignored... 

Twan Huys feliciteert Connie Palmen en wint prijs voor meest seksistische vraag 2016.

De roman Jij zegt het, waarin Connie Palmen een stem geeft aan Ted Hughes, won gisteren de Libris Literatuurprijs. Daar kun je uiteraard van alles van vinden. Misschien was een ander boek beter. Smaken en jury’s verschillen. In de op feiten en dagboeken, brieven en biografieën gebaseerde roman geeft  Palmen de dichter Ted Hughes een weerwoord. Een weerwoord op alle… 

Connie Palmen wint als derde vrouw Libris Literatuur Prijs 2016

Connie Palmen heeft maandagavond 9 mei de Libris Literatuur Prijs 2016 gewonnen met haar roman Jij zegt het. In de lange geschiedenis van deze literaire onderscheiding, die in 1994 voor het eerst werd uitgereikt, is Palmen pas de derde vrouw die het geldbedrag van € 50.000 en een bronzen legpenning in ontvangst mocht nemen. Eerdere winnaressen waren Frieda Vogels (1994) en D. Hooijer (2008).

Filter Translation Award 2016 to translator Günter Grass

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'... 

Harvey's hand only half full

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... 

Down with the novel pessimism

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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A Saturday night with Connie Palmen, Adriaan van Dis and Socrates. #wu16, #wn16

Next time, there will be 10 people queuing for a hotseat, 100 online viewers and dozens of live spectators in the foyer. At least I hope so, because only then will experimenting with new forms, apps and devices make sense, of course. At the second Winternachten night, Saturday 16 January at the Theater aan het Spui, we had slightly fewer viewers than... 

Queues to the door for Knausgård at Winternachten #wu16 #wn16

Lots of audience and wonderful stories made the Saturday of the literary festival Winternachten a party. For the visit of Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård in the afternoon, queues stretched from the auditorium to the front door of the Theater aan het Spui. The festival's evening programming was also well attended. While American-German philosopher Susan Neiman spoke in... 

Susan Neiman chief guest at Winternachten 2016: Why the atomic bomb really fell on Hiroshima

Propaganda is not just something that occurs in, say, Russia, but also in the West - more so than we ourselves realise. For example, is it widely believed today that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to capitulate and thus end World War II, nothing could be further from the truth. In that respect, Germany goes... 

"22 fascinating, deeply engaging pages on human failure, for which we can only be very grateful.

''Look mum! You have that book too!'' Harry Mulisch's granddaughter points to a book on the reading table named after her grandfather at the Café Américain in Amsterdam. Mulisch's entire oeuvre is displayed on the table at which he loved to sit. In the café that was dear to him. Anna Mulisch smiles. She and her sister Frieda, the... 

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