Writer in Residence

We host an annual Dutch Writer in Residence programme. The scheme engages with students as well as staff, and actively contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Hafid Bouazza on stage with Reinier Salverda

The scheme is funded by the Nederlands Letterenfonds (Amsterdam). It allows a Dutch or a Flemish writer, whose work has been translated into English, to spend up to six weeks at UCL, on an annual basis.

The department is also the editorial base for the long-standing and award-winning international research journal on interdisciplinary Low Countries Studies, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies.

Writer in Residence 2022-23

Simone Atangana Bekono

Past Writers in Residence

2021/22 Rashif El-Kaoui
2019/20: Fikry El Azzouzi
2018/19: Lisa Weeda (in collaboration with Huis de Buren in Brussels)
2017/18: Maarten van der Graaff (in collaboration with citybooks.eu)
2016/17: Carmien Michels
2014/15: Maud Vanhauwaert
2013/14: Wim Brands
2011/12: Abdelkader Benali
2010/11: Joost Zwagerman
2009/10: Gerbrand Bakker
2008/09: Isabel Hoving
2007/08: Kader Abdolah
2006/07: Pieter Frans Thomése
2005/06: Thomas Rosenboom
2004/05: Hafid Bouazza, pictured above on a literary evening in the Haldane Room on 13 December 2004.

Former Writers in Residence have included such acclaimed authors as: J. Bernlef, Marcel Möring, Leo Pleysier, H. C. ten Berge, Arnon Grunberg, Frank Martinus Arion, Tessa de Loo, Hans Maarten van den Brink, Helga Ruebsamen, and Arthur Japin.