Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival

The power of literature

The festival, one of the most important and beautiful international literary events in the Netherlands, takes place throughout The Hague in theaters and district libraries, at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and The Hague secondary schools.

The festival includes the two large, varied festival nights Friday and Saturday Night Unlimited on various stages in The Hague. The festival concludes on Sunday at the Amare with “Playing with Fire,” a one-off and energetic show full of spoken word, music and dance in which words, rhythm, melody and movement meet.

Friday and Saturdaynight Unlimted 

Friday Night Unlimited and Saturday Night Unlimited are grand, super diverse festival nights about and featuring books, films, stories, poems and current issues on five stages. Writers, poets and artists from home and abroad perform in conversations, recite and talk about their favorite books and films.

Program

Friday Night Unlimited with (subject to change) Abdelkader Benali | Benzokarim | Francis Broekhuijsen | Diann van Faassen | Dario Goldbach | Babs Gons | Maarten van der Graaff | Mirte Hartland | Rosabelle Illes | Zaïre Krieger | Mojdeh Felli | Asta Olivia Nordenhof | Joost Oomen | Elif Shafak | Yaël van der Wouden, among others.

Saturday Night Unlimited with (subject to change) Alara Adilow | Abdelkader Benali | Francis Broekhuijsen | Alvina Chamberland | Diann van Faassen | Rosabelle Illes | Andrej Koerkov | Zaïre Krieger | Kylie Martijn | Lev Avitan | Lara Nuberg | Alejandra Ortiz | Tommy Wieringa | Daniëlle Zawadi, among others.

You choose your own route through about twenty talks, interviews, readings and performances that vary from night to night. Each performance lasts about twenty to sixty minutes. Dutch or English spoken.

Your ticket gives you access to all talks and performances that evening.