Three writers confront the stranger in their books, in the outside world and within themselves. After years of exile the South-African writer Breyten Breytenbach dwells in a middle world between Europ...

After the successful tour of Mr Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, the play that he performed on stage for 4 years, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is back with a show that combines music and the dramatic ar...

With Simone Atangana Bekono (the Netherlands), Ann Cotten (Austria), Christina Hagen (Denmark), Olga Pek (Czech Republic), María Eloy-García (Spain), DAAN and Grażyna Bienkowski. The new generation...

Which language should we speak to get through to radicalized young people? How can we respond to radicalism? Khalil, Yasmina Khadra's new book, follows the life of a young man who is about to blow ...

The promising young French novelist in a dialogue with his philosophical counterpart. Both of them are on the verge of a major international breakthrough and have even been described as “The new Frenc...

These are turbulent times for Turkey. The failed coup of 2016 sparked tensions, as writers and journalists experienced first-hand. Many intellectuals have been accused of “propaganda for a terrorist o...

With: Inua Ellams, Bernardine Evaristo, Amina Jama, Catherine Johnson, Nick Makoha & Roger Robinson. From the outside British literature largely seems like a white boys’ club, with such literary sc...

Carsten Jensen has travelled to Afghanistan on several occasions over the past forty years. His experiences fed into the monumental war novel The First Stone about a group of Danish soldiers in a mili...

Seven actors perform poetry and prose from 1914-1918. They represent seven languages, seven soldiers and seven nations or powers. Two MCs recount the war in Dutch and French. What went on beforehand?...

Arno Geiger won the prestigious Deutscher Buchpreis and the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis in 2005 for his novel We Are Doing Fine [Es geht uns gut]. In his latest book Beneath Drachenwand Mountain [Unter ...