video: elena medel in residence
04.12.2025
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recording
Spanish poet, novelist and essayist Elena Medel was our writer-in-residence for the month of November. She discussed her novel The Wonders during an evening with Beatriz Serrano and Jana Antonissen, gave a writing workshop on ways to write realistically about the city you live in, and worked on her next novel and new poems.
In this video portrait by Sarah Baur (director) and Frederik Van Melle (camera), Elena talks about the themes that preoccupy her, her discovery of Federico García Lorca's poetry as a young girl, and the book she is currently working on.
“I wanted to think about how our circumstances are defining our language and our relation with language.”