Dedica Festival, review in Le Monde
The Dedica Festival in Italy has been a great success. On the Media page you will find a number of photographs of German writer and philosopher Rüdiger Safranski and Dutch photographer Eddy Posthuma de Boer.
At the festival, publisher Emilia Lodigliani of Iperborea became a Knight in Order of Orange-Nassau, a royal award for people who earned special merits for Dutch society. She is the editor and publisher of many Dutch writers, amongst others Cees Nooteboom, Hella Haasse, Kader Abdolah, Multatuli and J. Slauerhoff. So far, she has brought out nine different books by Cees Nooteboom in Italian.
Also, Le Monde published an excellent review of the French editions of Tumba’s and ’s Nachts komen de vossen (Foxes in the Night) which you can read here.
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I had as much as a thousand lives and yet took only one. From: Open als een schelp - dicht als een steen
Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. From: Rituals
An overview of the many places in the world that Cees Nooteboom has described in his oeuvre.
Nooteboom’s debut novel, Philip en de anderen (Philip and the Others), came out in 1955. He was twenty-two years old at the time. Where did the inspiration come from? READ MORE
Nooteboom has written about the phenomenon many times, about why it is that he always wants to pack his suitcases again. READ MORE
Cees Nooteboom is known primarily for his novels and his travel books. As far as he is concerned, however, poetry comes first. READ MORE
Many of Nooteboom’s essays deal with art, particularly those branches with a visual focus: painting, architecture, film and photography. READ MORE