Travel has always been at the core of nonfiction in Flanders. Whether authors do research overseas or in neighbouring countries, even travel through the home country to find an answer to their questions, they always open up wide vistas on the history of the visited places. A selection.
Much is currently being written about the Chinese exploitation of Africa, but who is writing about the price China pays? The answer: Lieve Joris, and brilliantly, too.
NRC Handelsblad
What happens when people meet who do not share a colonial past? With that question in mind, Lieve Joris leaves Africa for China. In keeping with the modus operandi she has refined over past decades, she immerses herself in the world of Africans and Chinese who venture into each other’s territory in the slipstream of the big trade contracts.
Verbeken brings back to life the era of the great expectations
De Volkskrant
Pascal Verbeken registers the small and the large signs of the times. He listens to a multicoloured collection of Belgians and their unique, sometimes tragic stories. ‘Grand Central Belge’ is a requiem for a divided country that does not succeed in chasing its old demons away.
