Mediterranean literature festival

 
 
Kunststichting Sahne presenteert: 4e Mediterrane Letteren Festival
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A series of poetry evenings  exploring creative writing in Mediterranean languages and parallels between the poetry of those countries, which culminate in a Mediterranean literature festival in the Netherlands  in december 2005.
The Turkish Art Foundation Sahne organizes the fourth
Mediterranean literature festival in six cities (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht en Tilburg) between 14-18 december 2005.  Seven writers from seven countries visit the Netherlands and give readings and present their work.
Guests:

Kaklamanaki Roula  (Greece)
Zahra Ziraoui (Marocco)
Hilmi Yavuz (Turkey)
Michele Mari (Italy)
Libero Ubeya (Spain):
Halil Dzananovic (Bosnie)
Hester Knibbe (The Netherlands)

 

 
Guests of the festival

Kaklamanaki Roula  :  Born in Pireaus and has been studied at  the university of Athens. She built a career as juriste, but later she would be especially confessed as a Member of Parliament: She has been chosen two times in the parliament. Between 1981 and 1988 she has held a State Secretary function at the Greek ministry of  culture . The multi-purpose poet Roula write poems and prose, translations of  poëzie and moreover she contributes with her articles and columns to newspapers. Innumerable poems of her are appeared abbroad.

Zahra Ziraoui:  born in Marrakech. She has been mainly influenced by modern Arab literature. She graduated in 1961, and started her  career as a teacher and a journalist. Ms. Ziraoui has so far, besides her many poems and articles in the newspapers, six boeks (poems)  published. At present she is among other things operative at the university of Rabad. The writer has also seven novels and tale books  on her name. She writes her essays and articles among other things in the following newspapers: Ezzamane ell Jadid, Elmada, Culture Marocaine, Akhbar, Already Adab, Amman, Littératures libanaises, le novel, le Critique.

Hilmi Yavuz : Mr Yavuz is born in 1936, in Istanbul  and has graduated literature at the university of London. Besides his fourteen poetry books,  he has philosophical articles and researches in the different newspapers as a docent at the university of Mimar Sinan and the Bosphorus university in Istanbul. In his youth years he was influenced by the so-called "Second New" wave, a much-discussed , romantic stroming in the poetry of the middle Fifties. This stroming can be compared with the Fifties in the Netherlands. Nowadays he belongs rather to the realistic stroming and is  socially oriented. Yavuz has been very famous because of his peculiar and refined style. Hilmi Yavuz has two famous poetry prizes (with his ` Eastern Poems`, the  Yeditepe poetry prize and with his ` Temporary Poems` the Sedat Simavi Literature Prize) on his name and he is  at present one of the most important names in the contemporary Turkish poetry.

Claudio Pozzani (Italy) is a poet, musician and organizer of international poetry events,  such as the international poetry festival in Genua, Italy, Helsinki Runo festival (Finland), La Semaine Poétique in Paris, Music &Poetry  in Munich (Germany). Pozzani have been famous by his public recitations on a lot of international poetry festivals in Europe, Latin America and Canada. His  poems have been translated in more than ten languages and appeared in important, contemporary international (poetry) magazines. Pozzani is  the founder of the House of the Poetry  (Circolo dei Viaggiatori nel tempo) in Genua.

Libero Ubeya:  Born in 1957, in south Spain. He has spend many  years  for appreciation and normalisation of Andalusisch. He is except writer, also designer and editor of illustrated magazines such as Layon Leto etc. Also he is President of Ekonon (advisory body for the conservation of Andalusisch). But everything he wants to be an Andalusische poet.  The poetry book  ` Labarta - in Gesprek` of  this poet who lives in Madrid has apperared in 15 January 2005 in Dutch. The topic of Labarta is the uprooting of people. The first copy of this book was distributed at the opening in Holland to the Spanish ambassador in the Netherlands. At that occasion  the dichter and translator  have presented some poems in resp. Andalusisch and Dutch.

Halil Dzananovic:  Born in 1955, in Srebrenica and has studied at the university of Belgrado. He wrote for a long time in the Yugoslavian daily ` Daily Voice`, but during the civil war he had to escape to the Netherlands. So far two poetry books  of Dzananovic have appeared and the third lies at present at the printer.

Hester Knibbe: Born in 1946 in the Netherlands. She made her debut in 1982, with her collection ` Between Gestures and Words`. In 1999, Knibbe received the prestigious Herman Gorter price for her work  ` Anti death`.  The poet has published since 1982 seven books  and received in 2001  the Anna Blamanprijs in the Netherlands. She chooses frequently for personal subjects and says that those are  in fact  ` the most universal`.  Hester  Knibbe have also acted in 1994, in Turkey.

               
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