Nooteboom in South America
The XXI. Festival Internacional de Poesía is taking place in Medellín, Colombia. From 2 to 10 July, many international poets will appear at the festival. Jules Deelder represented the Netherlands at the last festival and Cees Nooteboom will be making six public appearances in a variety of locations at this year’s event. He will then travel to Buenos Aires, where a concert will take place at the Consejo on 5 September, featuring music by the Catalan composer Benet Casablancas. One of the compositions to be performed is Six Glosses, a piece for soprano and orchestra based on Nooteboom’s book De omweg naar Santiago (Roads to Santiago). For five days at the beginning of September, Nooteboom will also appear at the Festival Internacional de Literatura Buenos Aires – at which the Spanish translation of ’s Nachts komen de vossen will be presented.
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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases. From: Rituals
I had as much as a thousand lives and yet took only one. From: Open als een schelp - dicht als een steen
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