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A live online programme broadcasted from the Crossing Border studio.

This event is free. If you register you will receive more info and a video link closer to the event. With this video link you can easily access the online programme.

Programme:

Jasper Henderson in conversation with Paul Mendez

Keeley Forsyth

Margot Dijkgraaf in conversation with Hoda Barakat

A live online programme broadcasted from the Crossing Border studio.

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Programme:

Persis Bekkering in conversation with Julia Phillips

Kassa Overall

Podcast KOFFIEDIK: part 1 Dag Dodo with Jibbe Willems and Elma van Boxel (moderator: Thieme Hennis)

Sander Pleij in conversation with Michael Christie

A live online programme broadcasted from the Crossing Border studio.

This event is free. If you register you will receive more info and a video link closer to the event. With this video link you can easily access the online programme.

Programme:

Pete Wu in conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn

Anna B Savage

Podcast KOFFIEDIK: part 2 Hope with Pelumi Adejumo and Jeff van Dijk (moderator: Thieme Hennis)

Hans Bouman in conversation with Robin Robertson

An online festival evening with spoken word, literature, poetry and music.

This programme is for the most part a live broadcast and times are subject to change. If you want to see a specific artist, we advise to tune in a bit earlier

Programma:

18.30 – 19.00 Broeinest

19.00 - 19.06 Spoken 070 finalists

19.08 - 19.16 Iduna Paalman

19.16 - 19.24 Elten Kiene

19.27 - 19.57 Persis Bekkering in conversation with Fernanda Melchor

20.00 - 20.35 Broeder Dieleman

20.38 - 20.46 Lamia Makaddam

20.46 - 20.54 Edna Azulay

20.57 -21.27 Niña Weijers in conersation with Claudia Durastanti

21.30 - 21.38 Vrouwkje Tuinman

21.40 - 22.40 Meindert Talma

C.A.L.M.: Crimes Against Love Memories

'Because a life lived in fear is equal to no life at all'

This is the uncompromising vision of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile. Fearless and highly erotic, these stories delight in ideas of sexual transgression and liberation, offering a window onto a world where anything is permitted, and everything is safe. As each of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile's characters break from the bonds of acceptability and enter a darkness of desire, submission and sex, they discover their own humanity, a place where they can truly be free.

A manifesto in the form of erotic photography, monologues and dialogues, Johnny Hostile's stimulating photography punctuates Jehnny Beth's seductive prose. Collapsing the barriers between sex an art while examining the universal values of human existence and consciousness through uninhibited desire, C.A.L.M. established Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile as two of the bravest and most provocative voices in fiction and erotic art today.

This event is free. If you register you will receive more info and a video link closer to the event. With this video link you can easily access the online programme.

Buy 'C.A.L.M' at De Vries Van Stockum​

The Chronicles 2020

*This programme will be available online on our livestream. Register for more information.

The Chronicles is Crossing Border Festival’s unique annual residency project for talented authors and translators. Today we can announce this year’s participants. Talented writers Anne Moraal, Munir Hachemi, Naoise Dolan, Sebastiaan Chabot and Sholeh Rezazadeh will be blogging live from the festival about their insights. Munir and Naoise will be blogging from home, as crossing the border isn’t deemed a possibility at the moment. At the same time, translators will get to work and offer the audience an almost immediate translation. These translators are at the start of their literary careers and will showcase that they can produce fast and high-quality translations. This year’s participating translators are Fleur Jeras, Francesco Panzeri, Madelon Janse, Olga Niziołek en Sophie Atkins. Prior to the festival, there will be a blog published online by every author. During the festival three will be written live and a final blog will conclude their journey after the festival has ended. All blogs will be published with their respective translations. The first blogs will be published in October through thechronicles.eu​

Live Event during Crossing Border Festival

The Dutch authors and translators of The Chronicles 2020 will be live on stage during the Crossing Border Festival. Besides the blogs and translations that will be written, they will also be questioned about their books, their debuts, translating, the literary world and this year’s collaborations. How did they make it work with the other person they’re working with, not being in the same country, something that was also custom in previous years? We’ll hear all about it during this special live programme.

Translators

An online festival afternoon full with spoken word, literature, poetry and music.

This programme is for the most part a live broadcast and times are subject to change. If you want to see a specific artist, we advise to tune in a bit earlier.

Programma:

14.00 - 14.08 Tjitske Jansen

14.08 - 14.15 Asha Karami

14.15 - 14.45 Robin Kester

15.00 - 15.30 Manu van Kersbergen

15.35 - 16.10 Ronit Palache in conversation with Connie Palmen

16.15 - 16.35 Joost Oomen

16.40 - 17.10 Nana Adjoa

The European Literature Prize is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The award goes to the best contemporary European novel that was translated into Dutch and published the previous year. What is unique about the prize, is that both author and translator are rewarded.

To mark the anniversary, an extra jury had been installed with a majority of students as its members. Presided over by author Alma Mathijsen, this jury has chosen Frère d'âme by David Diop as its winner. The novel has been translated from French by Martine Woudt and is published in the Netherlands by Cossee.

The regular jury, presided over by author Abdelkader Benali has chosen Spring by Ali Smith as its winner. This novel was translated from English by Karina van Santen and Martine Vosmaer and is published in the Netherlands by Prometheus.

Program

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On Saturday evening 7 November chairs of the jury’s Alma Mathijsen and Abdelkader Benali will introduce the winners to the audience: David Diop, Ali Smith and their translators Martine Woudt, Karina van Santen and Martine Vosmaer. The award-winning authors will be present via video. Expect a wide-ranging conversation on borders and migration, manipulation and exclusion, connection and imagination, art, storytelling and hope.

Jury

Abdelkader Benali (1975) is a novelist, poet, journalist and playwright as well as tv presenter, moderator, performer and promotor of literature. His highly acclaimed debut Wedding by the Sea (1996) was an international bestseller. His second novel, The Long Awaited received the Libris Literature Award 2003. Recent works include Letter to my Daughter (2016), The Weekend Millionaire (2019) and The Stranger; racism explained to ourselves (2020). This year Abdelkader was awarded the Golden Goose Feather for his contribution to and efforts to promote Dutch literature.

Alma Mathijsen (1984) writes novels, short stories, plays, essays and columns. She started writing for an online magazine at age seventeen and secured a column in Het Parool, a leading Amsterdam based newspaper. Mathijsen studied Creative Writing at Pratt Institute in New York and graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy’s Image & Language department in 2011. That same year, her debut novel Everything is Carmen was published, followed by The Great Good Things (2014) and Forget the Girls (2017), which was shortlisted for the BNG Bank Literary Awards. In her most recent novella, I Don’t Want to Be a Dog (2019), a woman decides she wants to turn into a dog so she and her ex-lover can be together again.

The award ceremony of the European Literature Prize will be organised in collaboration with Spui25.

Saturday the 7th will be dedicated to the noble art of translation, with The Chronicles and the award ceremony of The European Literature Prize streamed online directly from our location.

A live online programme broadcasted from the Crossing Border studio.

This event is free. If you register you will receive more info and a video link closer to the event. With this video link you can easily access the online programme.

Programme:

Else Boer

Selin Kuşçu

Rosan Hollak in conversation with Manuel Vilas

Lotte Krakers

Marjolijn de Cocq in conversation with Antonio Scurati

Rosan Hollak in conversation with Anthony Anaxagorou