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Passa Porta is looking for Georges Perec fans

On 7 October 2026, the day before the next Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, the Brussels house of literature will posthumously award…

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La vie emportée par le vent

L’anthropologue franco-iranienne Chowra Makaremi a récemment bénéficié de quelques jours de résidence à Passa Porta. Plaçant le sensible au…
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a look back: brussels city of traces

On May 23, Brussels City of Stories celebrated the traces people leave behind in Brussels during the Brussels City of Traces: Storytelling…
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Passa Porta is looking for Georges Perec fans

On 7 October 2026, the day before the next Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, the Brussels house of literature will posthumously award…
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passa podcast: bregje hofstede

Welke geboden gelden er in de literatuur? Hoe kan je de orde handhaven in het rijk van de verbeelding?In de Passa Podcast ontdekken we hoe…
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video: mattias timander in residence

Meet Swedish author Mattias Timander, Passa Porta’s international writer in residence in May. In this video portrait by Sarah Baur…
author text Ayşegül Savaş

Medusa

A few months before she committed suicide in 1963, the American author Sylvia Plath put forward a blurred vision of this mythological…
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video: abdelaziz baraka sakin in residence

Meet Sudanees Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Passa Porta's writer in residence in March 2026. During his stay in Brussels, he worked on the…