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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...

    • 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.