upcoming
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Fr 10.09
| 20:00
passa porta
NL
yves petry
Flemish novelist Yves Petry presents his fifth novel De Maagd Marino (De Bezige Bij).
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Su 19.09
| 10:00
kanaalzone molenbeek
RU / FR / NL
festival kanal
yevgueni bunimovitch & henri jacobs
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Su 19.09
| 11:00 - 13:00
de munt / la monnaie
FR / NL
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...
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Fr 24.09
| 20:00
passa porta
NL / FR
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.
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Mo 27.09
| 20:00
passa porta
EN
meet the author
jonathan coe
Jonathan Coe in conversation with Annelies Beck about his latest novel The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim ...
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Tu 28.09
| 20:00
kunstencentrum vooruit
EN
jonathan coe
Jonathan Coe in conversation with Marc Reugebrink...
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We 29.09
| 20:00
bibliotheek tweebronnen leuven
EN / NL
jonathan coe
Jonathan Coe is one of the guests during 'the season's harvest' book programme hosted by Kurt Van Eeghem...
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Th 30.09
| 20:00
passa porta
FR
writer in residence
dany laferrière
Encounter with the Haitian-Canadian author Dany Laferrière, in residence at Passa Porta.
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Fr 01.10
| 20:00
passa porta
NL
boekpresentatie
sven vitse
Presentation of literary critic Sven Vitse's first collection of essays. In Dutch.
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Sa 02.10
| 22:00
passa porta
FR + NL
nuit blanche
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Su 10.10
| 11:00
passa porta
NL / FR
le marathon des mots
stefan brijs & liliane wouters
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Tu 12.10
| 20:00
passa porta
EN
writer in residence
aifric campbell
Encounter with Aifric Campbell, author of The Semantics of Murder, in residence in Belgium during the month of October.
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Su 17.10
| 11:00
passa porta
NL
literaire brunch
ensor door de ogen van oscar van den boogaard, gerda dendooven, frank de crits e.a....
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Su 28.11
| 11:00
passa porta
NL
interlitratour
atte jongstra about heroes and the belgian revolution
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Th 24.03
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Su 27.03
passa porta festival 2011
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- Tu 04/05/2010 - 16:05
news from goethe-instut brüssel
20 & 21 May, Symposium The Culture of Memory. One of the speakers is writer Katja Lange-Müller. Read more...
17 June, Lecture and discussion - Literature prize of Bremen. Read more...
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Th 19/11/2009 - 12:11
su tong wins the man asian prize
The Chinese author Su Tong, who was in residence at Het beschrijf in October, has won the prestigious Man Asian Prize for his novel The Boat to Redemption. More...
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- 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.
