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  • Fr 10.09 | 20:00 passa porta NL Make a reservation schrijver

    yves petry

    Flemish novelist Yves Petry presents his fifth novel De Maagd Marino (De Bezige Bij).


  • Su 19.09 | 10:00 kanaalzone molenbeek RU / FR / NL flag schrijver
    festival kanal

    yevgueni bunimovitch & henri jacobs


  • Su 19.09 | 11:00 - 13:00 de munt / la monnaie FR / NL flag schrijver
    a stage with a view

    on gombrowicz

    Enter the universe of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz the company of three eminent specialists, an actor and a pianist. In French and Dutch...


  • Fr 24.09 | 20:00 passa porta NL / FR flag flag flag Make a reservation schrijver
    start of the season

    lieve joris

    Passa Porta’s sixth season starts with a new Passa Porta Lecture by the Flemish travelling author Lieve Joris. The lecture will be followed by the avant-première of a documentary about the author, produced by Canvas.


  • Mo 27.09 | 20:00 passa porta EN flag Make a reservation schrijver
    meet the author

    jonathan coe

    Jonathan Coe in conversation with Annelies Beck about his latest novel The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim ...


  • Tu 28.09 | 20:00 kunstencentrum vooruit EN flag schrijver

    jonathan coe

    Jonathan Coe in conversation with Marc Reugebrink...


  • We 29.09 | 20:00 bibliotheek tweebronnen leuven EN / NL flag schrijver

    jonathan coe

     Jonathan Coe is one of the guests during 'the season's harvest' book programme hosted by Kurt Van Eeghem...


  • Th 30.09 | 20:00 passa porta FR flag flag Make a reservation schrijver
    writer in residence

    dany laferrière

    Encounter with the Haitian-Canadian author Dany Laferrière, in residence at Passa Porta.


  • Fr 01.10 | 20:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    boekpresentatie

    sven vitse

    Presentation of literary critic Sven Vitse's first collection of essays. In Dutch.


  • Sa 02.10 | 22:00 passa porta FR + NL flag flag flag schrijver

    nuit blanche


  • Su 10.10 | 11:00 passa porta NL / FR flag flag Make a reservation schrijver
    le marathon des mots

    stefan brijs & liliane wouters


  • Tu 12.10 | 20:00 passa porta EN flag Make a reservation schrijver
    writer in residence

    aifric campbell

    Encounter with Aifric Campbell, author of The Semantics of Murder, in residence in Belgium during the month of October.


  • Su 17.10 | 11:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    literaire brunch

    ensor door de ogen van oscar van den boogaard, gerda dendooven, frank de crits e.a....


  • Su 28.11 | 11:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    interlitratour

    atte jongstra about heroes and the belgian revolution


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    passa porta festival 2011


    • We 26/05/2010 - 17:05
    • new book: writing away from home

    • Het beschrijf proudly presents Writing Away from Home. International Authors in Brussels, a new book comprising a selection of pieces written by foreign authors on the basis of their stay in Brussels or Flanders. Read more...

    • We 05/05/2010 - 16:05
    • the european house of literature in oslo

    • This week, Het beschrijf's director Sigrid Bousset is representing the International House of Literature Passa Porta at the seminar The European House of Literature in Oslo, Norway.

    • Tu 09/03/2010 - 11:03
    • photos ismael kadaré

    • In this season's photo album you can find some pictures of our evening with Ismael Kadaré in Brussels. (c) A. Crespo.

    • Tu 23/02/2010 - 16:02
    • babel at the military museum

    • Presentation of the poetic film Babel by visual artist Honoré d'O, created for Het beschrijf in collaboration with German poet Ulf Stolterfoht. Saturday 6 March at the Military Museum.

    • Th 21/01/2010 - 13:01
    • residences

    • The French Canadian writer Myriam Beaudoin sent us her new novel 33, chemin de la Baleine (Editions Leméac).  Her residency with us in winter 2008 was spent writing a great part of it. Or put in her own words: "The last hundred pages have been written in Vollezele. These pages are the most beautiful and truest in the book."

    • We 20/01/2010 - 18:01
    • video david grossman

    • A new video was added on our YouTube-channel: a fine excerpt from the conversation between David Grossman and Annelies Beck at Flagey, held on Thursday 14.1.10. On brotherhood, intimacy, and the incomplete "knowing" of the other. Watch here...

    • Tu 12/01/2010 - 16:01
    • die frau mit den 5 elefanten

    • Screening of Vadim Jendreyko's beautiful documentary about Svetlana Geier, the remarkable German translator of Dostoyevsky's big novels. At Beursschouwburg, 20 January, 20:30...

    • Fr 27/03/2009 - 13:03
    • photos opening passa porta festival

    • On Thursday 26 March, the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas was reading Work Song to open the Passa Porta Festival 2009. Photos (c) Elke Verheyen.