Marjan Terpstra

Winternachten lecture 2009 by Nuruddin Farah

January 2009 -

What does living in two worlds mean to an immigrant? Somali writer Nuruddin Farah speaks from experience.

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Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands: "Cultural cooperation and exchange are essential"

December 2008 -

Princess Laurentien on the importance of culture for social development and her chairwomanship of the European Cultural Foundation ECF.

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Fake: fables, facts and fiction

December 2008 -

Fake is the theme of the next edition of the literary festival Winternachten in The Hague. Writers are masters when it comes to manipulating reality. They use day-to-day life and history to tell their own stories and uncover the truth behind reality.

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Nury Vittachi: "I am an Earthling"

December 2008 -

Full interview with the Sri Lanka born and Hongkong based writer Nury Vittachi about the differences between Asia and Europe, his work and his literary projects.

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Perihan Magden: "If people offend my country I do feel Turkish"

December 2008 -

Perihan Magden (Istanbul, 1960) latest novel Who were we running from, mother is about the fears she felt when she was prosecuted and taunted because of her support of a conscientious objector. "I feared for my life," says Magden in an interview about her books, her life and the power of a columnist.

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Indira Goswami catches hard life in poetry

December 2008 -

Indira Goswami was relatively unknown in Europe until now, but after winning the Principal Prince Claus Award 2008, that is sure to change.

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Cambodians work through traumas in art

November 2008 -

Metahouse in Phnom Penh is one of the few art institutions in Cambodia attempting to use art to help the people of Cambodia work through their traumatic past.

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Nuruddin Farah keeps Somalia alive with his pen

November 2008 -

Somali author Nuruddin Farah is considered by many to be the most important African candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The oeuvre with which Farah established his reputation primarily has one theme: his homeland Somalia, from which he fled in 1974 during the reign of dictator Siad Barre.

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Nury Vittachi: 'I light fires in dark spots'

October 2008 -

Writer and humorist Nury Vittachi grew up in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and London, and he has been living in Hong Kong for years now. All those rambles have made him a mediator between east and west.

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Seun Kuti: 'Africa must save Africa'

October 2008 -

While his famous father Fela's message was 'stand up and fight', with his mere 25 years son Seun calls upon his listeners not to fight, but to think.

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