deBuren

Radiobooks are stories commissioned by deBuren and written and read aloud by Dutch and Flemish writers. The stories are not published but can be heard as a podcast or downloaded. The Radiobooks are also broadcast in collaboration with our partners on Klara and the Radio Nederland World Service.

On 21st February you can attend the recording of two new Radiobooks by Jacques De Decker and Bart Koubaa. De Decker's story will be read in French and Koubaa's in Dutch.

Jacques De Decker (º1945) is a Germanic scholar, novelist, playwright, teacher, and film and literature critic for Le Soir newspaper in Brussels. His work has been published in several languages and his theatre work performed on stages as far away as Australia. He has translated work by writers such as Shakespeare, Kleist, Hugo Claus and Woody Allen into French. Jacques De Decker is lifelong secretary of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium.

Bart Koubaa (º1968) studied film and photography at the KASK and Arabic at Ghent University. He has lived successively in Vienna, Madrid, Jerez de la Frontera and Florence. At the end of 2000 he published his first novel Vuur, for which he received the Flemish First Novel Award. Four years later he published Lucht, about a man whose aim is to capture the cosmos in a poem of seventeen syllables. His third novel, Het gebied van Nevski, was published in 2003.

For more Radiobooks and information on writers, recordings and radio broadcasts visit www.radioboeken.eu.