het beschrijf presents

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  • Tu 09.02 | 20:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    aanverwanten

    jan de cock

    First episode of the new series Aanverwanten (relatives) by Het beschrijf. With visual artists, including Jan De Cock, and hostess Chantal Pattyn.

  • We 10.02 | 20:00 literaturhaus stuttgart DE flag schrijver
    hommage

    hugo claus in stuttgart

    Paintings by Hugo Claus at Literaturhaus Stuttgart. Opening with the writers Cees Nooteboom and Joachim Sartorius.

  • Tu 16.02 | 20:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver

    jan arends

    An evening honouring the Dutch writer Jan Arends, with Iwein Segers, Stefaan Vanbrabandt, Jessa Wildemeersch, and Arends' biographer, Nico Keuning.

  • Fr 19.02 | 20:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    poetry

    paul bogaert & de Slalom soft Live

    Lecture-performance of the latest collection of poems by Flemish poet Paul Bogaert.

  • Tu 23.02 | 12:30 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver
    salon non-fiction

    sami zemni

    Political scientist Sami Zemni talked with Jef Lambrecht, on the subject of Islam...

  • We 24.02 | 20:00 passa porta EN flag Make a reservation schrijver
    writer in residence

    lars husum

    The young Danish author Lars Husum published his succesful debut novel Mit venskab med Jesus Kristus ('My Friendship with Jesus Christ'). Interview by Marc Reugebrink.

  • Th 25.02 | 20:00 passa porta NL flag Make a reservation schrijver

    oscar van den boogaard

    In honour of his latest book, Meer dan een minnaar (more than a lover), writer Oscar Van den Boogaard talked with psychoanalyst Lieven Jonckheere.

    • 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.