Literature lives, moves and leaves traces behind, just like the archives which want to save literature from the ravages of time. It is the paradox of literature and creation: all traces are relics of ...

For its 10th edition the EU Prize for Literature is coming to BOZAR. At an exclusive evening this year's 14 laureates will be our guests of honour. These are emerging writers who are on the verge of a...

There’s no need to present the American writer Siri Hustvedt. She has written several books, including international bestsellers such as What I loved and Summer without men. Her nonfiction has also ga...

In Morocco today young feminist voices are to be heard in a country whose literary traditions stretch back over centuries. BOZAR has extended an invitation to three socially committed Moroccan authore...

Extreme violence is an everyday reality for the LGBTQ community in Africa as they suffer humiliation, physical aggression and killings. More than 30 African states have passed repressive laws against ...

The French writer Olivier Guez made his international breakthrough with The disappearance of Josef Mengele, a historical novel about the Auschwitz doctor's life as a fugitive. The book won the 2017 Pr...

The Malaysian author Tash Aw has been marked as a name to watch in literary circles for some time now. Due to his pronounced political commitment he is often compared to his good friend Édouard Louis....

The body is determining for our identity, but at the same time it is subject to control, by others and by society. Our conceptions of race and gender, for example, acquire form through the body. With ...

Eric Andersen is a name often mentioned in the same breath as such famous contemporaries as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and is one of the most poetic voices to come out of the United States. The legen...

Exactly 30 years ago the communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu was ousted from power. The Romanian writers Gabriela Adameşteanu, Mircea Cărtărescu, Ioana Pârvulescu and Cătălin Pavel were aged respecti...