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citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Inspired by a two-week residency in an interesting city they create a citybook: a short story, an essay or a series of poems or photographs. You can read, listen to, watch and download these city portraits everywhere, free of charge. The citybooks are available as text, e-book and podcast (mp3), in multiple languages. Travel without moving! www.citybooks.eu is an initiative of the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren.
citybooks: unique city portraits by international authors and artists. Yelena Moskovich took up residency in Bruges. This inspired her to mix historic characters, contemporary shopping breaks, a decor of paintings and a choir in 'Sick Fuck Operetta'. Discover all the citybooks and find out more about the project on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch author Gerda Blees wrote a citybook on Haarlem. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs wrote an experimental, multilingual poem inspired by the Frisian capital Leeuwarden. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Spanish author Andrés Barba wrote a citybook about his stay in the Dutch city of Haarlem, exploring the town with his baby son. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and images by international authors and artists. Italian author Francesca Melandri wrote a citybook on Bruges and it's harbour Zeebrugge, where cruise ships full of tourists arrive and migrants desperate to get to the UK try to leave. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits in words and images by international authors and artists. Belgian poet and author Els Moors writes about Karlsruhe. From Heinrich Heine to 'Bingo Flamingo', in her essay, the author reflects on past and present Karlsruhe. Find out more on citybooks.eu
citybooks: unique city portraits in words and images by international authors and artists. Belgian author Hannah Roels writes about Bruges. The lives of a little boy, a tourist and a student cross paths on a summer day in the city. Find out more on citybooks.eu
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch author and poet Arjan Hut wrote a citybook on his hometown Leeuwarden and the colourful inhabitants he meets in his neighbourhoud. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Belgian author Erik Vlaminck wrote a citybook on Leeuwarden. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Author Hassan Blasim wrote ´John Lennon the dog´ inspired by Leeuwarden. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch writer Hagar Peeters visited Bruges and in het citybook gives voice to a portrait by Memling, who observes the inhabitants and tourists in the Belgian city. Find out more on citybooks.eu
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Irish author Dermot Bolger wrote a citybook on Ypres. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Belgian author Kristien Hemmerechts writes about Haarlem.She observes the city and its inhabitants in amusement and learns about the rich past of Haarlem. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Maïssa Bey wrote a citybook on Ypres. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch author and poet Maarten van der Graaff wrote a citybook on Karlsruhe. In this poem he questions his position and introduces the only officially recognized Punk. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. German author Alida Bremer wrote a citybook on Münster. She tries to find water in this city, to make her Mediterranean soul feel more at home. 'Münster certainly wasn’t dry. But the water came from the wrong direction, from the sky onto the earth, and coloured the heavens grey.' Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Belgian author Carmien Michels wrote a citybook on Münster. 'If the clocks of the churches aren’t chiming, then it’s raining. All the cruel thoughts drain with the rainwater into the sewers, dripping down onto the remains of the former city, seeping into the old sewers.' Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. German poet Monika Rinck wrote a poetic citybook on Karlsruhe: nothing is as you might be expecting. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
Dutch poet Erik Lindner wrote a citybook about the city of Münster. He was inspired by the Aasee, the lake in the city, which resulted in the series of poems 'Rowers on Lake Aa'. Find out more about citybook on www.citybooks.eu
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. The Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun wrote a citybook inspired by Antwerp. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Poet Ghayath Almadhoun wrote the gripping citybook 'Schizophrenia' inspired by Ypres. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Author Rodaan Al Galidi wrote a series of ten poems inspired by Antwerp. '(...) Attention, attention:/ from now on/ hate and fear/ are forbidden/ in Antwerp (...) '. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Belgian author Frederik Willem Daem wrote a citybook on Antwerp. The story is set in the microcosmos of a local pub. '... every day in The Raven has the same potential. Every day has it within itself to turn into a good night ...'. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch author Rebekka de Wit wrote a citybook on Antwerp. 'Back when I couldn’t understand the language, I loved Antwerpers just as I loved songbirds.' Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Belgian author Michael Bijnens wrote a citybook on Antwerp. The main character is intrigued by a mysterious man and decides to follow him, but the answers she gets are different from what she was expecting. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Flemish author and journalist Catherine Vuylsteke wrote a citybook on Ypres. She evokes the Great War through the letters of a young Indian soldier at the Occidental battlefront. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch author Kees 't Hart wrote a citybook on Ypres mixed with childhood memories. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Dutch author Niña Weijers wrote a citybook on Ghent. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits by international authors and artists. Tim Etchells reads his citybook about Lisbon. Find out more at www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Spanish author Ángeles Caso wrote a citybook on Ghent. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
The German author Karl Schlögel wrote a citybook on Ghent. He looks at the architecture in this city and discovers it has much more to offer than just the historic centre. Find out more about citybooks on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits by international authors and artists. J.M. Vieira Mendes wrote a citybook about Lisbon. He takes us to his street, where he has a past, and a future too. Find out more at www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits by international authors and artists. Armen of Armenia wrote 'Radio Yerevan', about a radio presenter with the same name as the Armenian capital, who questions the 'weight, smell, colour, gender' and everything else there is to know about the city. Find out more at www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. The Portuguese writer Patrícia Portela wrote a citybook on Lisbon. In 'The April Gentleman', she sketches the relationship between a girl and her grandfather through time in a series of fragments threaded together by the city itself.Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
citybooks: unique city portraits through words and pictures by international authors and artists. Marlene van Niekerk writes about Stellenbosch, or better, about food culture in this city, in her citybook 'On dragon’s teeth, goody two-poops, connoisseurs and sausage: a Stellenbosch medley for voice and upright, with two intermezzos, backed by historical rustling'. Find out more on www.citybooks.eu.
This citybook has been written by students of the School of Modern Languages at the University of Sheffield as part of a special university module constructed around the citybooks concept. FInd out more on www.citybooks.eu