What's on | Crossing Border 2026

Upcoming events

23 October 2026

20:00 - 21:00

Borderkitchen, Kerkstraat 13

20:00 - 21:00 | Borderkitchen, Kerkstraat 13

3 – 8 November 2026

Royal Theatre, The Hague

4 + 8 november 2026

Arenberg, Antwerpen

20 November 2026

20:00 - 21:00

Theater De Regentes

20:00 - 21:00 | Theater De Regentes

26 November 2026

20:00 - 21:00

Borderkitchen, Kerkstraat 13

20:00 - 21:00 | Borderkitchen, Kerkstraat 13

Emmanuel Carrère RV (c) Hélène Bamberger

PARTNER EVENT w/ Huis van Gedichten

11 December 2026

19:30 - 22:00

Borderkitchen, Kerkstraat 13

19:30 - 22:00 | Borderkitchen, Kerkstraat 13

Huis van Gedichten open mic

Past events

2026

What's NXT Boook Club - Rebecca Kuang Douglas Stuart Voices From Gaza - Shrouq Doghmosh ‘Niemand op de begraafplaats’Matt Haig Ferdia Lennon Artem Chapeye CROSSING BORDER KIDS - Davide Morosinotto Siri Hustvedt Mircea Cărtărescu CROSSING BORDER KIDS – ED ONER Juan Gabriel Vásquez

2025

Crossing Border Antwerp 2025 Crossing Border Festival 2025 J.M. Coetzee Ali Smith Robert D. Kaplan Kaveh Akbar Rita Bullwinkel Paul Murray Jón Kalman Stefánsson Alan Hollinghurst

2024

Crossing Border Antwerp 2024 Crossing Border 2024 Colm Tóibín Werner Herzog De Situatie X Crossing Border Sholeh Rezazadeh Alejandro Zambra Writers for Ukraine Mustansar Hussain Tarar Abdulrazak Gurnah Murat Isik Daniel Kehlmann

2023

Margo Jefferson Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Giuliano da Empoli S.A. Cosby Sang Young Park Eleanor Catton Bret Easton Ellis

2022

Paolo Giordano Warsan Shire Guillermo Arriaga Orhan Pamuk Gary Shteyngart Karin Slaughter Roy Jacobsen Jennifer Egan Torrey Peters Tom Lanoye

2021

Lenny Kaye Jo Nesbø Stevie Van Zandt Jonathan Coe Isabel Allende T.C. Boyle C Pam Zhang DBC Pierre

2020

Laila Lalami Leïla Slimani Nir Baram Emily St. John Mandel Paolo Giordano Elif Shafak Judith Schalansky Sandro Veronesi Etgar Keret Benjamin Black (John Banville)

2019

Richard Dawkins Howard Jacobson & Micha Wertheim Hilary Mantel László Krasznahorkai Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah & Colson Whitehead Jonathan Safran Foer Valeria Luiselli & Frank Báez Paul Mason Ottessa Moshfegh Mahir Guven Anuna de Wever & Kyra Gantois Kristen Roupenian Guillermo Arriaga

2018

Sir Ian Kershaw Michael Palin Édouard Louis Rachel Kushner Johan Harstad, Dorthe Nors, Gunnhild Øyehaug Gabriel Tallent Paolo Cognetti

2017

Carlos Ruiz Zafón Orhan Pamuk Mohsin Hamid Gary Younge Paul Auster Paul Beatty Nadja Tolokonnikova Yaa Gyasi

2016

Antoine Leiris Albert Sánchéz Piñol Hanya Yanagihara Richard Russo Jay McInerney Héctor Abad Patrick deWitt Zeruya Shalev Harry Parker Nell Zink Lynsey Addario John Irving Garth Risk Hallberg & Peter Buwalda

2015

Salman Rushdie A.B. Yehoshua Isabel Allende T.C. Boyle Rachel Kushner Robert Seethaler Emmanuel Carrère Jan van Dingstee Colin Barrett Kevin Barry Michel Faber

2014

Martha Nussbaum Henry Marsh Simon Winder Bernhard Schlink Marie Darrieussecq Daniel Galera Christos Tsiolkas Michael Cunningham Ferdinand von Schirach Eleanor Catton Etgar Keret 2014 Riikka Pulkkinen Helon Habila

2013

Almudena Grandes Marisha Pessl Meindert Talma Arno Camenisch Sofi Oksanen Paul Ingendaay Nathan Filer Juli Zeh Taiye Selasi Karl Ove Knausgård Paolo Giordano

2012

Madeleine Albright Charles Lewinsky Richard Ford Nathan Englander Hilary Mantel Josh Ritter Javier Marias Antony Beevor Erik Kriek & guests Adam Johnson

2011

David Vann Eef Lanoye Michel Houellebecq Irvine Welsh Stephen Fry Mensje van Keulen Willy Vlautin György Konrád Alissa Walser

2010

Wladimir Kaminer Alessandro Baricco Ian McEwan Karin Slaughter Meir Shalev Yann Martel Julia Blackburn Philippe Claudel Sarah Hall & Jáchym Topol

2009

Sandro Veronesi & Nicolai Lilin Sarah Waters David Grossman Guus Janssen Tribute to Louis Lehmann Todd Hasak-Lowy Martin Walser J.R. Moehringer Daniel Kehlmann 2009 Redmond O’Hanlon & Rudi Rotthier

2008

Erlend Loe Dexter Filkins Terri(s)tories Crossing Border & Cadance Peter Carey Barbara Voors Samantha Power Richard Mason Aharon Appelfeld

2007

Jeanette Winterson Salman Rushdie Lionel Shriver Michael Chabon Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng Edward St. Aubyn Clare Allan Ingo Schulze Claire Castillon

2006

Carlos Fuentes Guillermo Arriaga Jens Christian Grøndahl & Sana Valiulina Hisham Matar Alessandro Piperno & L.H.Wiener DBC Pierre

2005

Amos Oz Jonathan Safran Foer

2004

Ruth Rendell Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt BORDERKITCHEN BERLIN - Tomas Lieske, Adriaan Jaeggi, Menno Wigman

2003

Meir Shalev Michel Faber T.C. Boyle

2002

Peter Esterhazy & Christian Kracht Michel Houellebecq