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Exploring Stories is a festival day on a wide range of current, urgent topics that depart from this year\u2019s festival topic: Why Fiction Matters. International and Dutch authors, live and online,\u00a0go into topics that matter, both in reality and in literature. If the past year has taught us anything, it is that the big issues of our time are all intertwined. Climate change, globalisation, capitalism and racial, cultural and economic inequality are global issues for which a univocal solution does not exist.
\nAlthough science and journalism map out reality, many invisible things remain. Literature searches for the truth behind the perceptible facts. In literature, it is not about the world as is, but about the world as it could be, whether that results in an enticing or a terrifying world. \u2018I write books about possible, unpleasant futures in the hope that we will not allow those futures into reality,\u2019 Margaret Atwood said at last year\u2019s ILFU.<\/p>\n

During Exploring stories you\u2019ll discover new insights about the important matters of our time, discover new writers, and hopefully you\u2019ll return home with new ideas and a sizeable bag filled with new books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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LINE UP<\/strong><\/p>\n

View and download timetable<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The writer as prosecutor: Roberto Saviano & D\u00e9sanne van Brederode<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roberto Saviano, Italian journalist and author of the book Gomorrah<\/em>, wrote a fiery piece in response to the murder of Peter R. de Vries about The Netherlands and crime. He joins author D\u00e9sanne van Brederode in conversation about truth and crime.
\nItalian and Dutch spoken [simultaneous interpreter]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Climate issues and oil spills:\u00a0Imbolo Mbue & Rebekka de Wit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imbolo Mbue\u2019s second novel, How Beautiful We Were<\/em>, is about the battle of a fictional African village with an American oil company. Mbue talks to writer and director Rebekka de Wit of the theatre production De zaak Shell <\/em>(in English: The Shell Trail<\/em>).
\nEnglish spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Repressed words, writing about sexual abuse: Caroline Lamarche & Manon Uphoff<\/strong><\/p>\n

A program with Caroline Lamarche and Manon Uphoff, who both wrote about disruptive relationships and sexual abuse; Lamarche in La m\u00e9moire de l’air<\/em> (The Memory of the Sky<\/em>), Uphoff in her novel Vallen is als vliegen <\/em>(Falling is like flying<\/em>).
\nEnglish spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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How language shapes the world:\u00a0Joyce Carol Oates\u00a0 & Kristien Hemmerechts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laurelled prolific writer and driven tweeter Joyce Carol Oates recently fiercely but humorously criticized the consequences of identity thinking on our language use. What words can we still use and what words can we no longer use?
\nEnglish spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Feminism of Maya Angelou with Sylvana Simons, Christine Otten & Raoul de Jong<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer, performer, civil rights activist: charismatic Maya Angelou was all this. Not in the least she was an advocate for women\u2019s rights, within and outside of the black community. Angelou is the Literary Master of ILFU 2021.
\nDutch spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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The politics of the personal: Lisa Weeda & Katerina Poladjan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Why Fiction Matters\u2019 is the theme of ILFU 2021. What role does fiction plays when mapping the politics and history of a country? Lisa Weeda wrote the novel Aleksandra<\/em>, about her grandmother who was deported from Ukraine in 1942 and ended up in the German war industry, and about a family between East and West that just can’t get away from an area that seems never to find peace. \u00a0Interview by Daan Doesborgh.
\nEnglish spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Representation and privilege: Roxane Gay & Samya Hafsaoui<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roxane Gay is writer and culture critic, author of among other books the most discussed collection of essays Bad Feminist<\/em>. Bold, open and painfully honest, Gay writes about feminism, the body, being fat, vulnerability, strength and identity. She will be interviewed by Samya Hafsaoui.
\nEnglish spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Women’s Rights and Islam: Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Lale G\u00fcl<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both barely need an introduction: authors Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Lale G\u00fcl, both high-profile for their books as well as their participation in the debate about freedom within a confining culture. How do they consider striving for freedom, independence and the impossibility of the way back?
\nEnglish and Dutch spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Morality, Sex, Literature:\u00a0Tahar Ben Jelloun & Abdelkader Benali<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s a novelist, poet and essayist, Morocco\u2019s most famous living author of today: Tahar Ben Jelloun. Abdelkader Benali talks to him on the occasion of the publication of his newest book: Le miel et l\u2019amerture<\/em>, a novel about problematic love affairs in a conventional society.
\nFrench and Dutch spoken [interviewer translates]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Old and new colonialism: Alfred Birney & Gustaaf Peek<\/strong><\/p>\n

How colonialism shapes our history as well as our present is one of the great themes of writer Alfred Birney. He speaks with Gustaaf Peek, whose new book A.D.<\/em> discusses the early days colonial rule in Indonesia. A conversation on the wings of history, knowledge and imagination.
\nDutch spoken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friction, data, AI: the intelligence of the future: Jeanette Winterson & Miriam Rasch <\/strong>
\nThe conversation with Jeanette Winterson will take place online from 24 September on. Ticketholders will recieve a link to watch this Book Talk for free.
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Regular price: \u20ac 25,00<\/span><\/p>\n

ILFU Members price: \u20ac 20,00<\/span><\/p>\n

NB Combine your visit to Exploring Stories on Saturday afternoon with the ILFU Book Talk with \u00c9douard Louis Saturday evening. A combination ticket for the afternoon and evening is \u20ac 32,50 instead of \u20ac45. As long as stocks last.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVENING PROGRAM
\nClass violence: <\/strong>\u00c9douard Louis & Sinan \u00c7ankaya<\/strong><\/p>\n

The adaptation for the stage of his book Who Killed My Father<\/em>, and no less than two new books, Combats et metamorphoses d\u2019une femme<\/em> and Dialougue sur l\u2019art et la politique<\/em> with Ken Loach, \u00c9douard Louis is the centre of attention. He talks to sociologist and author Sinan \u00c7ankaya about his work and his background.<\/p>\n

Please note: This Book Talk is a separate event on September 25th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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