IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
- Writers for Ukraine with Tommy Wieringa, Lisa Weeda, Jelle Brandt Corstius and many others.
- Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra at BorderKitchen.
- BorderKitchen with Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah sold out.
Writers for Ukraine
Crossing Border is pleased to announce a special evening with the Schrijvers voor Oekraïne (Writers for Ukraine) collective. The event will take place at Theater aan het Spui on Tuesday, the 28th of May.
All proceeds will go to Protect Ukraine, who provide protective gear for Ukrainian forces.
The writers, who witnessed the situation in Ukraine first-hand, formed the collective to share their stories and combat Russian disinformation.
Tommy Wieringa, Jelle Brandt Corstius, Maurits Chabot, Iris Koppe, Olaf Koens, and Lisa Weeda will join us to discuss their experiences. Volkskrant-photographer Daniel Rosenthal will show recent footage from the country. Oleg Lysenko and Tatiana Chevtchouk will play music on accordion and piano. Moderator: Alena Muravska. The full programme will be announced at a later date.
A small group of writers joined the third convoy sent by Protect Ukraine. They saw the growing equipment shortages in Kyiv, Charkiv, and Izjum, where no two soldiers wear the same shoes, but also the Ukrainians' tenacity: they will keep fighting. Unless Russia succeeds in dividing the West and ending the provision of weapons and ammunition, Ukraine is not lost.
Upon their return to the Netherlands, Tommy Wieringa and Jaap Scholten, accompanied by Ukrainian marine Andrej Mahomet, visited the Dutch parliament. They spoke to several MPs, including Kati Piri, Frans Timmermans, Derk Boswijk, Jan Paternotte and Thierry Baudet, urging them to expedite support for the Ukrainian army and draw attention to the Russian disinformation campaigns.
Tommy Wieringa:
It leaves Putin’s troll factories as a whisper, but is amplified multiple times over in the West, instilling defeatism in Ukraine’s allies: 'The war cannot be won.' Any divisive social issues that cause unrest and can be connected to Ukraine, such as the farmers' protests, are also fuel for dezinformatsiya; a tactic straight out of Stalin’s propaganda manual which is used to destabilise and undermine.
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Chilean Writer Alejandro Zambra at BorderKitchen
On Thursday 13 June BorderKitchen presents a live conversation and Q&A with one of Latin America’s literary stars Alejandro Zambra about his latest novel Vadertaal (Literatura infantil). The book will be for sale at The Other World Bookshop and there will be a book signing after the interview.
Multi-award-winning Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra is the author of poetry, essays, and novels. His books include The Private Lives of Trees and Ways of Going Home.
Zambra will join us at BorderKitchen to talk about his new book Vadertaal (Literatura infantil), a meditation on fatherhood and childhood exploring how the birth and growth of a child not only changes the present and the future, but also shakes up our ideas about the past.
Vadertaal is a diary of fatherhood, a letter to a son, and pure fiction, with Zambra’s genres coexisting in strange harmony in this unclassifiable book. Read it as an extraordinarily varied manual for new parents, or simply as a new and brilliant chapter in the oeuvre of Alejandro Zambra.
Date: Thursday 13 June 2024
Time: 20.00
Price: €10
Location: BorderKitchen, Kerkstraat 11, The Hague
Language: English
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Sold out BorderKitchen with Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah
On April 9th, BorderKitchen welcomes Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania, U.K.) to Theater aan het Spui for a conversation about his latest book Afterlives. This evening is now sold out.
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel literature prize winner, immerses the reader in the stories of people whose lives are flung into turmoil, reflecting his own displacement from Tanzania to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. His last novel Afterlives (Hiernamaals in Dutch), tells the story of Ilyas, a child stolen from his parents in east Africa by German colonial soldiers, and his quest to find his family after years spent away from home fighting against his own people. Gurnah presents a vital African narrative of German colonial rule in novels which address the great inter-generational harm of colonization, while at the same time mesmerizing readers with deft storytelling and complex, empathetic characters.
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