ABC Amsterdam is taking part in the Storytelling Marathon
On April 23rd authors and booklovers will take part in a read-a-thon (voorleesmarathon) to celebrate World Book Day and the start of Amsterdam World Book Capital.
Readings will take place all over the city from 9:30 am until about 7pm. You can have a lovely day, wandering from bookstore to library to take in a reading. You can even listen to a reading as you enjoy your lunch, since some readings are also being held in cafes and hotels!
The line up at ABC is:
14.30 – Amal Chatterjee
Amal Chatterjee’s first novel Across the Lakes was short-listed for the Crossword India Best Novel Award (1998). His other work includes Representations of India, 1740 – 1840, he has held a Scottish Arts Council Writers’ Bursary, teaches fiction at the University of Oxford and performs in IndiaScapes. He lives in Amsterdam where he is working on two novels and a play.
15.00 – Nina Siegal
Nina Siegal is the author of the hard-boiled satirical novel, A Little Trouble With The Facts, (HarperCollins, March 2008), which has been translated into Dutch, with the title UP & DOWN (forthcoming in May from Truth&Dare Publishers, Amsterdam). She’s been living in Amsterdam since 2006, writing her second novel, about a 1632 Rembrandt painting.
15.30 – Julie Philips
Julie Phillips is the author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. A biography that reads like a fast-paced novel, it covers subjects as wide-ranging as lion-hunting, lesbian love affairs, feminism, the CIA, and science fiction, and won the 2006 National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Phillips, a longtime Amsterdammer and a Frisian by marriage, is an editor at Amsterdam Weekly, reviews books for Trouw, and is at work on a top-secret new biography.
16.00 – Pete Jordan
Pete was a college drop-out, a self-proclaimed layabout, and was always looking for free grub or a place to crash, but had the desire to travel and explore. As a result, he became a man with a mission – to professionally wash dishes in all 50 states. After chronicling some of his experiences in his self-published ‘zine called “Dishwasher” (which erupted into a cult following of 10,000 people), contributing to public radio’s “This American Life”, and being approached by countless publishers, Jordan finally decided to immortalize his outrageous journey through countless kitchens across America in a book.
16.30 – Manjit Kaur
Manjit Kaur is a British Asian writer/performer/social activist living in Amsterdam. Her first novel is entitled Moons, Myths & Marriages was published in Dutch in 2003 and her second stageplay entitiled Karma & Kismet Coming Home to Roost, begns touring in 2009.
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