residencies

Every year Het beschrijf invites numerous foreign writers and translators to come and work on a new manuscript in quiet surroundings and to become fully acquainted with our culture and literature. Our guests stay either in the green calm of Vollezele (in Villa Hellebosch) or in the heart of Brussels (Passa Porta). Some residents take part in literary evenings attended by the public and working sessions with translators or fellow writers. Authors may themselves also submit an application for a residency.

As a result of all these exchanges, Het beschrijf has built up a network of international partners, which means that authors in Flanders are also regularly able to enjoy a period of work abroad.

The ‘Residences in Flanders' project receives the support of the Flemish authorities.

 

More information on international writers who were our guests in the past on residents and writings

 

    • 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.