Interview Doireann Ní Ghríofa
About her latest novel 'Thus the Dead'
Interview with the Irish author and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa on the occasion of her latest novel, Aldus de doden. Doireann Ní Ghríofa gained recognition in the Netherlands with her prose debut Een geest in de keel (2021), for which she was shortlisted for the European Literature Prize in 2022. Aldus de doden is her long-awaited second novel and is set in a former psychiatric women's institution. In Aldus de doden, Ní Ghríofa intertwines the past and present—of the women who lived in the institution and the life of the modern narrator—in a mixture of prose, poetry, and archival material.
Museum Rotterdam is looking for young scaffolders for its new city museum
Museum Rotterdam is preparing to move to a new location: Het Steiger. That is why it is looking for ‘Steiger Builders’: curious children aged 7 to 12 from all neighbourhoods in Rotterdam who want to help shape the future of the museum. Not as visitors, but as genuine advisers. Their ideas will help...
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