Michael Cunningham is one of the greatest writers of our time. His latest novel Day is a beautiful family saga about survival and fortitude about loss and love. During this evening we will talk with him and Connie Palmen about this novel and his previous works, the way he depicts family life and relationships like no other and his love for literature.
Over Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is a novelist, screenwriter, and educator. His novels include A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Raised in Los Angeles, Michael Cunningham lives in New York City, and is a senior lecturer at Yale University. His novel Day came out in 2023.
Over Connie Palmen
Connie Palmen is the author of essays, stories, a novella, Het logboek van een ombarmhartig jaar, and her six major novels De Wetten (European Novel of the Year), De vriendschap (winner of the AKO Literature Prize), I.M. (winner Trouw Audience Award), Geheel de Uwe, Lucifer en Jij zegt het (winner Libris Literature Prize). Recently her collection of essay Voornamelijk Vrouwen (Mainly women) appeared.
Sprekers
Photograph Cunningham by Richard Phibbs
Ook in De Balie
Het Rusland van Michaïl Sjisjkin
War or peace?
Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history? This is one of the questions that lies at the hart of Michaïl Sjisjkin latest book My Russia: War or Peace?
Morfine: Adriaan van Dis
Een muzikale vertelling over familietrauma’s
Een muzikale vertelling over familietrauma’s met gedichten van Adriaan van Dis, op muziek van componist Simon Burgers
European Literature Night 2024
Writers as Travellers
The European Literature Night 2024 brings together authors from across the continent who will explore this year’s theme: ‘Writers as travellers’.
