Two literary stars at BorderKitchen!
On September 14, former winner of the Nobel Prize for literature Orhan Pamuk will talk about his new book Nights of Plague.
On September 27, poetry superstar Warsan Shire will present her long-awaited debut collection, Bless the Daughter.
Two literary stars at BorderKitchen!
On September 14, former winner of the Nobel Prize for literature Orhan Pamuk will talk about his new book Nights of Plague.
On September 27, poetry superstar Warsan Shire will present her long-awaited debut collection, Bless the Daughter.
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (1952) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His new novel is called Nights of Plague and will be published in September. The story of his new book takes place on the island of Minger, during a plague epidemic in 1901. Sultan Abdülhamit seals the island off to prevent further spreading of the plague. But is the sudden death of a health inspector a random murder or part of a bigger plan? The sultan asks his niece and her husband, a promising doctor, to go to the island and get to the bottom of it. Pamuk acquired renown in Turkey and the rest of the world with The Black Book. Subsequently The New Life, My Name is Red, Snow and The Museum of Innocence were published. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages.
Date: September 14
Location: Theater a/h Spui, zaal 2
Start time: 20:00 (doors open at 19:15)
Get your tickets for Orhan Pamuk here
Warsan Shire
The poem 'Home' by the young Somali-British poet Warsan Shire touched a nerve in the middle of the refugee crisis. It was shared worldwide as a call for a more humane policy and instantly made Shire famous. In her long-awaited debut collection, Bless the Daughter, she writes about her own experiences as a migrant, in beautiful poems that bring the lives of refugees and migrants, mothers and daughters, black women and teenage girls to life. Shire (1988) was born in Kenya to Somali parents and emigrated to England at the age of one. Her poems that she published online made a big impression: she soon had tens of thousands of followers on social media. She became London's first-ever Young People's Poet Laureate, received the African Poetry Prize and became the youngest person ever to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2016, Shire co-wrote Beyoncé's album Lemonade and reached millions of new fans.
Date: September 27
Location: Theater a/h Spui, zaal 2
Start time: 20:00 (doors open at 19:15)
Get your tickets for Warsan Shire here
