authors’ texts

The archives with written assignments for Passa Porta programmes can be found below. The texts of our writers-in-residence, written as a reminder of their stay, can be found here.
Also be sure not to miss our book publications.

 

2018

Passa Porta Seminar 'The Reader'

• Essays by Florence Noiville, In Koli Jean Bofane, Kees 't Hart and Christophe Van Gerrewey, to be found on the seminar's page.

 

2017

Passa Porta's Noble Prize 2017: Marguerite Yourcenar

• Eulogy by Véronique Bergen (in French)
   

Passa Porta Lecture 2017

• Yu Hua, My Books Wander the World (translated by Allan H. Barr)
   

Passa Porta Festival

• Erika Fatland, Confessions of a Traveling Writer (opening lecture)
   

Arash Chakeri (ICORN), Letter from an unknown writer in Brussels in 2017 to an unknown writer in Brussels in 2117

 

2016

Passa Porta Seminar 2016: Need & Necessity

• author's texts

Khaled Khalifa @ Kunstenfestivaldesarts 20.5.2016 at Passa Porta

• A Record of Painful Writing

 

2015

Poetry and Crisis (Transpoesie) 29.10.2015 at Passa Porta

• The fool of Sandy Point, by Peter Ghyssaert (BE). Translated from the Dutch by Patrick Lennon

 

Passa Porta Lecture 19.10.2015 at Passa Porta

• Passport, by David Vann

 

Passa Porta Festival 2015

• Opening speech by J.M.G. Le Clézio (in French), on 26.3.2015 in BOZAR

 

2014

10 Years of Passa Porta (2014)

• Patenly obvious, by Bernardo Carvalho (transl. Alison Entrekin)

 

Passa Porta Seminar 2014: The Time of the Author

• Anne Provoost, The Author's Stratagem (transl. Patrick Lennon)
• Jens Christian Grøndahl, News and the Writer
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Getting Poems from the News
   

2013

Passa Porta Lecture, 25.9.2013

• A Declaration of Love by Mikhail Shishkin (transl. Leo Shtutin)
  (click here for the original version in Russian)

Passa Porta Festival 2013 - imagine!

• Boualem Sansal, What Men Dream of, or The Odysssea of the Imagination - Keynote for the opening on 20 March
  
  AUDIO: TWO SPEECHES FOR 50 YEARS OF "I HAVE A DREAM" (MARTIN LUTHER KING)
• Philippe Van Parijs, Un roseau vert entre les dents
• Chika Unigwe, Free at last

 

2011

Grand Hotel Europa - A tribute to literary translation

• Alberto Manguel, Translation: A Miracle
• Michael Cunningham, Found in Translation
• Dubravka Ugresic, Out of Nation Zone

Passa Porta Festival 2011

• Jens Christian Grøndahl, The Radiance of Unspeakable Spring
• Nawal El Saadawi, Remapping The World

 

2007

• Poems by Eva Cox, Benno Barnard and Erik Spinoy (English), and Gwyneth Lewis, Patrick McGuinness and Richard Gwyn (Dutch). Passa Porta and Welsh Literature Abroad organised a translation workshop in november 2007 with three poets from Wales and three of their colleagues from Flanders.