Xandra Schutte / Saskia De Coster
Language in conflict
Dates
sat 18 nov 2023 - 20:00
location
Muziekstudio
price
€ 12
duration
1h 30' language
spoken language Dutch
What language still matters in the violence we see today? What can we still say or write? Current events today make it painfully clear once again that sometimes there are no words. Yet we try to say something through an image, a reaction on social media, a tweet. We try to capture reality. How do we deal with language in times of polarisation and conflict? Every word counts. Author Saskia De Coster talks to Xandra Schutte, editor-in-chief of De Groene Amsterdammer.
Xandra Schutte has been editor-in-chief of De Groene Amsterdammer since 2008. Its focus is on in-depth analysis, essays and investigative journalism. Recently, together with her colleagues, Xandra Schutte compiled De dissidente leeslijst, a reading list of twenty-three essential dissident novels that shed new light on novels written in oppression that nevertheless gave their readers a glimpse of freedom, even though their publication often had major consequences for the authors.
Saskia De Coster is an author. She published the books Wij en ik (2013), Nachtouders (2019) and Net Echt (2023), among others. Her work has been translated into more than 10 languages. With Nachtouders, she made it to the shortlist of the Libris Literature Prize in 2020. In February 2023, De Coster had herself locked up in the KMSKA for a month, where she finished her latest book in a glass room.
Xandra Schutte has been editor-in-chief of De Groene Amsterdammer since 2008. Its focus is on in-depth analysis, essays and investigative journalism. Recently, together with her colleagues, Xandra Schutte compiled De dissidente leeslijst, a reading list of twenty-three essential dissident novels that shed new light on novels written in oppression that nevertheless gave their readers a glimpse of freedom, even though their publication often had major consequences for the authors.
Saskia De Coster is an author. She published the books Wij en ik (2013), Nachtouders (2019) and Net Echt (2023), among others. Her work has been translated into more than 10 languages. With Nachtouders, she made it to the shortlist of the Libris Literature Prize in 2020. In February 2023, De Coster had herself locked up in the KMSKA for a month, where she finished her latest book in a glass room.