From boomer to zoomer and everything in between: every generation stands on the shoulders of the previous one. The perfect place to push off. Because *your* generation decides for itself what makes a book good and which language touches you....
From boomer to zoomer and everything in between: every generation stands on the shoulders of the previous one. The perfect place to push off. Because *your* generation decides for itself what makes a book good and which language touches you....
The traditional reading celebration in bookstores and libraries is celebrating a special anniversary this year. The 90th Book Week takes place from Wednesday, March 12 to Sunday, March 23, 2025. During Book Week, readers will receive the Book Week gift *De krater*, written by the winner...
That was the headline of the article from Trouw on March 19, 2024. This was reported by Frank Holleman (32) of his company Fork Ranger. We know that meat is bad for the ecological footprint, but that it also applies to cheese...
The theme of the 89th Book Week is 'In Our Family', and the Book Week gift is therefore written by the largest family of writers in the Netherlands: the Chabot family. From March 16 to 24, 2024, you will receive the Family Pack as a gift from...
Lize Spit is writing the 2023 Book Week gift and Raoul de Jong the 2023 Book Week essay, it was announced by the Foundation for Collective Promotion of the Dutch Book (CPNB). The 88th Book Week, the traditional celebration of readers in bookstores and libraries, takes place from...
T.S. Eliot was an American-British playwright, poet, philosopher, and literary critic. Eliot was an important figure in modernist literature, best known for his poem 'The Waste Land' (1922). Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most important lyric poets in the...
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce published in 1922. Generally, Ulysses, along with the poem The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, also published in 1922, is regarded as the most important exponent of modernist literature. James Joyce...
On November 18, 2022, it was one hundred years since Marcel Proust passed away. Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and critic. His greatest work, 'À la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time), completed in 1922,...
Nederland Leest has the theme 'Growing old, staying young' in 2022. The free book that can be picked up at the library in November is 'Mevrouw mijn moeder' by author Yvonne Keuls. A topical theme, because we are becoming increasingly...
Jan Wolkers was born in October 1925 and died in October 2007. This year marks 15 years since the death of the most famous writer of Oegstgeest and the Netherlands. Every year this month, Dorpsmarketing Oegstgeest organizes the Jan Wolkers...
On July 1, 2022, Keti Koti is celebrated in Suriname. The name literally means 'chains broken'. On that day, the abolition of slavery in Suriname (1863) is commemorated. It is technically a Surinamese celebration, but also in Amsterdam...
If you visit Haarlem for a 'day out' and you haven't seen the Teylers Museum, then you haven't seen Haarlem. The 'Vogelpracht' exhibition is on view until May 29, 2022. Says 'The Birds of America' by John...
From January 26 to February 5, 2022, it is time for the National Reading Aloud Days 2022, the campaign dedicated to reading aloud to young children. An important part is the National Reading Aloud Breakfast, where well-known Dutch personalities read aloud to the young...
For the 85th time, the CPNB is organizing the Book Week with the theme 'Rebels and Mavericks'. This theme, featuring writers Annejet van der Zijl (Book Week gift) and Özcan Akyol (Book Week essay), certainly caused a great deal of commotion, especially regarding the latter writer, before the Book Week...
Do you have the 2019 Children's Stamps at home? Beautiful stamps featuring old children's books. You have to pay a little more for quality than for last year's sheet. In addition to the regular sheet, Children's Thank You Cards and the Children's Book Stamp Set (personalized stamps) have also been released. If...
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