online
Di 3 Nov
literature, music
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.
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.
Programme:
20.00 - 20.45 Jasper Henderson in conversation with Paul Mendez
20.45 - 21.15 Keeley Forsyth
21.15 - 22.15 Margot Dijkgraaf in conversation with Hoda Barakat
Di 3 Nov
20:00-22:15
online
Wo 4 Nov
literature, music
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.
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.
Programme:
19.00 - 19.45 Persis Bekkering in conversation with Julia Phillips
19.45 - 20.15 Kassa Overall
20.15 - 21.00 Podcast KOFFIEDIK: part 1 Dag Dodo with Jibbe Willems and Elma van Boxel (moderator: Thieme Hennis)
21.00 - 21.45 Sander Pleij in conversation with Michael Christie
Wo 4 Nov
19:00-22:00
online
Do 5 Nov
literature, music
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.
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.
Programme:
19.00 - 19.45 Pete Wu in conversation with Kawai Strong Washburn
19.45 - 20.15 Anna B Savage
20.15 - 21.00 Podcast KOFFIEDIK: part 2 Mr. Backyard with Pelumi Adejumo and Jeff van Dijk (moderator: Thieme Hennis)
21.00 - 21.45 Hans Bouman in conversation with Robin Robertson
Do 5 Nov
19:00-22:00
online
Vr 6 Nov
literature, music
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.
This event is Dutch spoken except for the interviews with Fernanda Melchor and Claudia Durastanti.
Programma:
18.40 – 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 conversation with Claudia Durastanti
21.30 - 21.38 Vrouwkje Tuinman
21.40 - 22.40 Meindert Talma
Vr 6 Nov
18:40-22:45
online
Za 7 Nov
literature
Interviewer
Clara Vissers
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
Za 7 Nov
13:00-13:45
online
Za 7 Nov
Literature
Moderator
Jelko Arts
The Chronicles 2020
*Read the blogs at thecronicles.eu
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
Za 7 Nov
20:00 - 21:15
online
Za 7 Nov
literature, music
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.
This event is Dutch spoken.
Programma:
14.20 - 14.29 Tjitske Jansen
14.29 - 14.35 Asha Karami
14.35 - 15.10 Robin Kester
15.15 - 15.35 Manu van Kersbergen
15.35 - 16.10 Ronit Palache in conversation with Connie Palmen
16.20 - 16.40 Joost Oomen
16.40 - 17.10 Nana Adjoa
Za 7 Nov
14:20-17:10
online
Za 7 Nov
Award
Moderator
Alma Mathijssen & Abdelkader Benali
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
*This programme will be available online on our livestream. View the adjusted times. Register for more information.
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.
Za 7 Nov
21:15 - 22:30
online
Zo 8 Nov
literature, music
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.
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.
Programme:
19.00 - 19.08 Else Boer
19.08 - 19.16 Selin Kuşçu
19.16 - 20.00 Rosan Hollak in conversation with Manuel Vilas
20.10 - 20.18 Lotte Krakers
20.18 - 21.08 Marjolijn de Cocq in conversation with Antonio Scurati (interpreter Silvia Terribili)
21.10 - 21.30 Rosan Hollak in conversation with Anthony Anaxagorou
Zo 8 Nov
19:00-21:30