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Programming and commissioning events in literature, film and visual culture. Freelance agency set up by Martin Colthorpe.
London
Joined April 2014
Closing weekend of @ILFDublin brings the wonderful Aimee de Jongh to the stage for Drawing Where Cameras Are Forbidden, about the power of comics to uncover real life stories #newdutchwriting #ILFD2025 book now: https://t.co/r3PeLWF41F
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Tobi Lakmaker's The History of My Sexuality (tr. Kristen Gehrman) was described in @IrishTimes as as 'funny, joyous and wholly irreverent' and he visits @ILFDublin this Sunday 18 May. In conversation with @miguelmyriad @GrantaBooks Don't miss! #newdutchwriting #ILFD2025
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What an honour to present Jan Brokken yesterday @oxfordlitfest on Baltic Souls (tr. David Doherty) @scribepub. A book about memory, history, place, shifting languages and shifting geographies, vividly evoked through great storytelling #newdutchwriting
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They say the Green New Deal is expensive. Compared to what???
🚨 Horrifying videos of Malibu, California, reveal the intensity of the Palisades Fire 🔥 It’s out of control ‼️ No containment. Streets are filled with firefighters battling a 3,000-acre wildfire that is ravaging expensive homes costing $4.5m on average #PasadenaFire
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This will be great - @DutchCentre this Monday at 7pm: Karin Amatmoekrim & Raoul de Jong on Suriname with Clive Nwonka @UCLSELCS @UCLDutch. Looking forward! https://t.co/ONSMAlS9mh
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Exhilarating conversation about graphic novels with Aimee de Jongh, Chris Mould and Rachel Cooke @CheltLitFest - great working with @FaberBooks as part of #newdutchwriting with @DutchLiterature
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Lovely event today with Jente Posthuma and Fien Veldman @WigtownBookFest and great to see new readers for their books @ScribeUKbooks @HoZ_Books #newdutchwriting
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Absorbing conversation with Jente Posthuma and Fien Veldman @WigtownBookFest as part of #newdutchwriting! Great chairing by Stuart Kelly. Huge thanks to the festival and to @DutchLiterature
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This will be a special event: @Davidvanrey, currently shortlisted for @CundillPrize and longlisted for @BGPrize discusses his brilliant book Revolusi with translator David Colmer and chair @ElizabethPisani tickets: https://t.co/DfOibL0k0A
#flipthroughflanders
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Little piece in the Times on the Book Club today The team’s absolutely amazing, and it’s quite a bonkers set of things we do / they have to work on… so always very gratifying when ppl are into it Books are the future, read all about it 📚 📸 @orjenise
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👏 A very warm welcome to new Ambassador, Paul Huijts, and Deputy Ambassador, Annemijn van den Broek. Looking forward to connecting with our partners in the UK, and continuing to strengthen 🇳🇱 and 🇬🇧 bilateral relations as North Sea Neighbors. #NLinUK #NorthSeaNeighbors
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The beauty of an illustrator signing = signature + sketching! Leo Timmers @edbookfest #flipthroughflanders
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Author Leo Timmers and translator David Colmer bringing Bear’s Lost Glasses to life @edbookfest Great to partner with the festival as part of #flipthroughflanders to bring this beautiful book to life!
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David Van Reybrouck busy signing books @edbookfest following his exhilarating presentation of Revolusi as part of #flipthroughflanders - huge thanks to the festival for partnering with @FlandersLit to make it happen
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Wonderful to be back @edbookfest with David Van Reybrouck and chair Ben Bland on the fascinating history of C20th Indonesia in David’s book Revolusi #flipthroughflanders
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Are you interested in learning more about the short story form in modern and contemporary literature? Come join this online course I'm running for lifelong learners at @uniofyorkcll this October!
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Sulaiman Addonia and Simone Atangana Bekono chaired by @sashadebuyl live at Bantry Library @wcorklitfest = #flipthroughflanders x #newdutchwriting Thanks so much to the festival for welcoming us!
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The novel, philosophy, translation - another terrific conversation between Tobi Lakmaker and @sashadebuyl as part of #newdutchwriting @wcorklitfest
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Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem in brilliant conversation with @DrPragyaAgarwal about novels, screenplays, translation and genre. Thanks to @wcorklifest for hosting #flipthroughflanders events in 2024!
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Next up @wcorklitfest is Yorick Goldewijk and his fabulous book Movies Showing Nowhere inspiring our audience to create their own stories… @Letterenfonds #newdutchwriting
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