Hans Depelchin: wind egg
This week's Friday Verses are written by Hans Depelchin. We translated his poem ‘wind egg’.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
This week's Friday Verses are written by Hans Depelchin. We translated his poem ‘wind egg’.
They are a colourful and curious bunch, the artists that Hans Depelchin assembles in his debut novel Weekdier (Mollusc).
The Netherlands was long considered more progressive in cinema than Belgium. Surprisingly enough, film censorship was more robust in the Netherlands than in Belgium.
Every other Friday we treat you to beautiful verses by a poet from Flanders or the Netherlands. Sometimes an old forgotten poem, but mostly fresh verses by a young or unpublished poet.
In his monthly column, Dirk Vandenberghe draws attention to literary debuts from Flemish and Dutch writers which garnered less notice upon release than they deserve.