Etiket: Literature
Teachers
These days I think of my teachers. On the poems of Emily Dickinson, beautiful and true and transparent. On the Brontë, laughing as the three of them (and their brother)…
The pearls of Ukrainian literature
If you want to understand a country, you must read its literature. But only a handful of books have been translated from Ukrainian into Dutch. What counts as Ukrainian literature…
Carme Riera: “For the authors, Carmen Balcells deserves to be a saint”
03/02/2022 Act at 10:19 CET She was “an incredible queen”, an unforgettable woman who invented the profession of literary agent in Spain. She is an unusual and unrepeatable character, not…
Shortlist Libris Literature Prize 2022 announced: one debutant, no Flemish
The six contenders for the Libris Literature Prize 2022. The six contenders are: Nico Dros with Willem who made MadocMariken Heitman with worm moonAuke Hulst with The Mitsukoshi Comfort Baby…
Erkki Saarela’s brother disappeared into his alien legion
Leo-Lassi Saarela mysteriously disappeared in the late 1960s. INCLUDES PLOT DISCOVERIES! Actor Erkki Saarelan brother Leo-Lassi disappeared in Paris in 1969. After a two-month stay in the country, the only…
Convicted director Kirill Serebrennikov on his latest film: ‘Russian literature has prophetic power’
Petrov’s Fluc Kirill Serebrennikov was not allowed to leave Russia for the premiere of his new film Petrov’s Fluc, last summer in Cannes. But otherwise he is free, the 52-year-old…
Documentary series: “They call us foreigners team” about football, integration and racism
Zeitz as another “main actress” Taking the conflict as a bracket, “They call us foreigners team” is very close to the characters, both visually and in terms of content. It…
Fascinating collection of Afro-Belgian reflections on (post)colonial literature
‘It would have been nice if not I, but a Congolese had written this book’, said David Van Reybrouck after the publication of his historiography on the Belgian ex-colony Congo…
“In Nicaragua now everything is circles of hell”
The Nicaraguan writer exiled in Madrid returns to the noir genre with the novel ‘Tongole no saber danza’ and offers a talk at the BCNegra festival next Monday Sitting in…
Doireann Ní Ghríofa wrote a very clever ode to literature ★★★★★
“This is a feminine text.” With those words opens A ghost in the throat by the Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Her prose debut was acclaimed and won several awards,…