Events
June 18-20, 2006 - Brussels: Anne Provoost reads an oral story in front of a life audience at DeBuren. The story she reads is never to be published.
June 5-10, 2006 - Oldenburg, Germany: Anne Provoost reads at the University of Oldenburg.
May 17-20, 2006 - Saarbrücken, Germany: Anne Provoost reads at the Europäische Kinder- und Jugendbuchmesse.
May 9, 2006 - Utrecht, The Netherlands: Anne Provoost reads her second letter to Hans Christian Andersen at a convention of librarians.
May 14, 2006 - Houthulst, Belgium: Anne Provoost reads at Verschijningen.
April 27-30, 2006 -
New York: Anne Provoost speaks at PEN
World Voices.
Tuesday,
April 27,
2006 at 1 p.m. in Hunter College:
Panel discussion on 'Tell
That Story Again: Writing Myth Now'
with David Grossman, Jeanette Winterson, Milton Hatoum
and Anne Provoost. Moderator is Colum
McCann.
"Working with
myth—seeking new meaning in mankind’s oldest stories—is
one of the greatest literary challenges. Writers who have rewritten myths
for modern audiences discuss the complexities of making them new."
Friday, April 28, 2006 at 6.30 pm
untill 8 pm in the Asian American Writers' Workshop:
Panel discussion on '51%: Women Write the World'
with Helen Oyeyemi (England/Nigeria), Ayu Utami (Indonesia), Melania Mazzucco
(Italy) en Anne Provoost. Moderator is Jessica Hagedorn.
"Geography is literary destiny. Women writers from four continents
discuss writing about home/going home and how gender influences a writer’s
literary landscape."
Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 4 pm untill 5.30 pm in
Pace University:
Panel discussion on 'Suitable for Children', with David Grossman,
Tonya Bolden, Francesca Lia Block, Hanna Jansen en Anne Provoost. Moderator
is Arthur Levine of Scholastic Inc.
March 13, 2006 - London: Anne Provoost reads at The Gallery at Foyles on Charing Cross Road. The event is organised by NLPVF and the Times Literary Supplement. Reading and interview with Isabel Hoving. At 4.30 p.m.
November 26, 2005 - Brugges, Belgium : In the Shadow of the Ark receives the Award of the Province of West-Flanders in the Provincial Court in Brugges.
November 22, 2005 - Dublin: The list of eligible titles for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award are announced in Dublin. In the Shadow of the Ark is nominated.
Fall 2005 - Antwerp, Belgium: In the collection of short stories Gelezen en goedgekeurd of Meulenhoff/Manteau the story De hand die de teugels vasthoudt by Anne Provoost is published.
October 23, 2005
- Brugges: Opening of the exposition Verfraaiing
with a contribution by Anne Provoost, Brugges.
October 14-15, 2005 - Tshwane/Pretoria: Anne Provoost reads at the University of Pretoria, together with Tom Lanoye and Riana Scheepers.
October 12-13, 2005 - Tshwane/Pretoria: Anne Provoost gives readings and workshops in UNISA.
October 10, 2005 - Bloemfontein: Anne Provoost meets the children of Atang.
October 4, 2005 - Brussels: Literary evening with Anne Provoost and Bart Moeyaert on Hans Christian Andersen in Passa Porta.
September 2005 - Amsterdam: In the collection of short stories Ik was een kind, selected by Kristien Hemmerechts, the short story Ik ben niet hoog is published.
August 2005 - New York: The paperback of In the Shadow of the Ark is published at Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Putnam.
Juni 2005 - London: The paperback version of In the Shadow of the Ark is published by Simon&Schuster.
May 3, 2005 - Stockholm: celebration of Queen Astrid at the Belgian Embassy. Anne Provoost reads.
April 11-17, 2005 - Tromsø, Norway: Anne Provoost reads for the project Leesestafetten in schools and universities in the Northern part of Norway (Tromsø en surroundings). She is in the company of her colleague writer Ragnfrid Trohaug. Read a report here.
April 1-3, 2005 - Copenhagen: The Hans Christian Andersen year opens with a big performance in the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, in presence of Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark. Anne Provoost takes part as HCA2005-ambassador for Belgium.
March 11-13 , 2005 - Adelaide, Australia: Key note speech by Anne Provoost at the symposium RE:VIEWS, on literary criticism. RE:VIEWS is a national conference on the reviewing of books children and young adults. Jointly organised by the SA Writers' Centre & ALLWRITE! (the literature component of Come Out, the SA Youth Arts Festival), it will be held in Adelaide at the State Library. The aims are: to raise the profile of youth literature in our culture to encourage the reviewing of children's books as literature; to improve the quality of reviewing and to broaden our understanding of how all media approach the reviewing of children's literature.
March 2005 - Antwerp, Belgium: Presentation of the letter i for Antwerp Book Capital on location. The letter is made by Anne Provoost and knife forger Antoine van Loocke for ABC2004 in the project City of Letters.
September 11, 2004 - London: In the Shadow of the Ark is reviewed in The Guardian.
September 1, 2004 - The unabridged audio-version of In the Shadow of the Ark comes out on CD and MP3 at Blackstone Audiobooks.
August 2004 - Sydney: The Australian version of In the Shadow of the Ark is published at Hodder Headline Australia. Take a look at the cover here.
August 2004 - New York: Publication of the American translation of In the Shadow of the Ark, Arthur A. Levine Books, imprint of Scholastic Inc.). Take a look here at the pdf of the first chapter. Look here at the cover of the book.
July 2004 - Munchen: The pocket edition of Rosalenas Spiegel, the German translation of The Rose and the Swine, is published in Germany at Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlach. Take a look at the cover here.
June 29, 2004 - Washington: Anne Provoost reads in the Library of Congress in Washington. Arthur Levine interviews.
June 28, 2004 - New York: Anne Provoost meets the independent booksellers.
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June 27, 2004 - Orlando, Florida: Anne Provoost is Scholastic's guest at the The American Library Association (ALA).
June 18, 2004 - Antwerp: Publication of the English translation of Provoost's A.M.G Schmidt-lecture in a publication of Stichting Lezen Nederland and Stichting Lezen Vlaanderen.
June, 2004 - Booklist publishes a review of In the Shadow of the Ark.
May 28, 2004 - Brussels: At a press conference the Belgian Cartoon Strip Museum, the Danish Ambassador to Belgium, Karsten Petersen, appoints five Belgian Hans Christian Andersen Ambassadors of Hans Christian Andersen 2005. Anne Provoost is one of them. The other HCA Ambassadors are: Jacques De Decker, Writer; Marc Didden, Film maker; Bart Moeyaert, Writer; Carl Norac, Writer.
May 2004 - London: Publication of the English translation of In the Shadow of the Ark at Simon&Schuster. Take a look at the cover here.
May 4, 2004 - Sidney: The Australian publisher Hodder Headline decides to publish In the Shadow of the Ark as an adult title.
April 30, 2004 -The rights to the audio-publication of In the Shadow of the Ark are bought by Blackstone Audiobooks. The unabridged version will be available on CD and MP-3 briefly after the publication of the American version of the book.
February 29, 2004 - New York: The paperback rights for USA and Canada of In the Shadow of the Ark are purchased by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin Putnam USA. The paperback will be published August 2005.
December 2003- New York: The Advance Readers's Edition of the English translation of Anne Provoost's novel In the Shadow of the Ark is available.
2004 November 2003 - Antwerp: Anne Provoost starts an i-relationship with knife forgerer Antoine van Loocke for Antwerp Book Capital ABC2004 in the project City of Letters. Together they will do an artistic project with the 9th letter of the alphabet, the letter i.
October 2003 - Copenhagen: Anne Provoost accepts to become an ambassador for the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 Foundation.
October 20 - 26, 2003 - Lisbon: Viewing of the film Falling at Expo Lingua, in the presence of the author.
15 October 15, 2003 - Ghent: Installation of Anne Provoost as a member of the Royal Academy of Language and Literature in .
September 23 - October 5, 2003 - Potchefstroom, Pretoria and Bloemfontein: Readings to a South African audience.
September 10 - 12, 2003 - London: Presentation of The Low Countries of Ons Erfdeel, with reading from De arkvaarders ('In the Shadow of the Ark') by the author.
July 2003 - Sidney: The Australian rights of De arkvaarders ('In the Shadow of the Ark') are bought by Hodder Headline Australia.
June 26, 2003 - Die Zeit in Germany publishes a review.
June 2003 - London: The British rights of De arkvaarders ('In the Shadow of the Ark') are bought by Simon & Schuster UK.
May 2003 - Germany: Flutzeit receives the special mention 'Fallt aus dem Rahmen' in the magazine Eselsohr of May 2003. The magazine published a review.
Spring 2003 - New York: The American version of De arkvaarders (In the Shadow of the Ark) will be published in March 2004 by Scholastics, imprint Arthur Levine.
March 2003 - Berlin: The German Edition of De arkvaarders ('Flutzeit') is published at Altberliner Verlag.
Fall 2002 - Stockholm: The Swedish Edition of De arkvaarders ('Arkfararna') is published at Opal Bruna.
More information about Anne Provoost's work here.