Speaker

Margot Dijkgraaf

Participant

Margot Dijkgraaf (The Netherlands, 1960) is a literary critic, writer, curator, interviewer, debate leader and "ambassador between France and the Netherlands in the field of literature", as a French ambassador once said. She has been writing about literature for some 30 years, mainly for the NRC daily. She has published books on French and European literature, on Hella S. Haasse and Cees Nooteboom. Her most recent book is In de voetsporen van mijn grootvader (2021), an autobiographical search for her literary genes. Before that, she published Met Parijse pen. Literaire omzwervingen (in collaboration with photographer Bart Koetsier, 2020), which takes readers to Paris for walks in the footsteps of famous Dutch and French writers. She is joint artistic curator of the Netherlands' Guest of Honour role at the 2024 Leipzig Book Fair with German journalist Bettina Baltschev.


Photo by (c) (c) Bart Koetsier

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