High Impact: Literature From The Low Countries

6 top writers from the Low Countries on tour to 6 cities for 6 nights of readings and debates.

To showcase the best High Impact literature from Flanders & the Netherlands in English translation. With a final gala gathering in London of authors from both the UK & the Low Countries. They are the Low Countries literati: all prize-winners and best-sellers back home, all writing in Dutch but from 2 different countries – Belgium and the Netherlands. 2 of our closest neighbours producing some of the most exciting literature in Europe, but about whom we know too little and they too little about each other.

Now for the first time, and in a unique collaboration, 6 of the best Dutch-language storytellers are coming together for a rock star-style tour of 6 English cities – to perform for us and to discover what they may (or may not!) have in common. Featuring Lieve Joris, Herman Koch, Ramsey Nasr, Peter Terrin, Chika Unigwe, Judith Vanistendael.