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High Impact comes to Birmingham

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:52 AM PST

High Impact BannerThis Tuesday 15 January sees the High Impact tour arrive in the West Midlands at a special event taking place at Birmingham Cathedral, 8 – 9.30pm. The event which has been created by Rosie Goldsmith, known in the UK as a champion of international fiction features 6 Dutch-speaking best-selling authors who will be performing together and sharing their work.

The writers involved are:

LIEVE JORIS, whose non-fiction writing of Africa, China, the Middle East & Europe has earned her the status of the VS Naipail of the Low Countries. Author of the acclaimed The Rebel's Hour: 'Powerful and timely, intensely imagine' – Paul Theroux.

HERMAN KOCH, former actor & comedy star, novelist; his thrilling mega-hit The Dinner… 'proves how powerful fiction can be in illuminating the modern world' – The Economist.

RAMSEY NASR, the Dutch Poet Laureate and all-round Renaissance Man (actor, director, poet, journalist and librettist). 'Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope' – Marilyn Hacker on Heavenly Life.

PETER TERRIN, 2012 winner of the prestigious AKO Literature Prize and author of the psychological thriller The Guard: 'A rich and gripping mix of all the ingredients that make for a truly haunting atmosphere' – Writers' Hub.

CHIKA UNIGWE, born in Nigeria, at home in Belgium; poet, shorty story writer & award-winning novelist of On Black Sisters' Street: 'Exquisitely observed and heartbreaking' – The Guardian.

JUDITH VANISTENDAEL, the Posy Simmonds of Belgium; the bold & brilliant graphic novelist of When David Lost His Voice: 'Big, bleak, brilliant and stark' – The Economist.

ROSIE GOLDSMITHSponsored by Flanders House and the Netherlands Embassy in London.

You can read more information about the High Impact Tour including intrerviews with the Dutch-English translators, Sam Garrett & David Colmer, read a Q&A with event creator, Rosie Goldsmith and see videos of each of the writers involved and a spotlight of more information on each.

Tickets for this event are £8 (£5 concessions). To book, please click here to book online or you can call our box office on 0121 245 4455 or pop into The Box located in Birmingham Central Library.

Sponsored by Flanders House   Sponsored by the Netherlands Embassy  Writing West Midlands

 
Posted by Creative Midlands at 1/10/2013 11:47:00 am

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