{"id":17378,"date":"2026-02-18T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/?p=17378"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:10:02","slug":"adriaan-van-dis-naar-podium-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/en\/adriaan-van-dis-naar-podium-explore\/","title":{"rendered":"Adriaan van\u202f Dis at Podium \u202fExplore!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last appearing as a guest in\u202f2018 during the Explore the North Festival, and back again on Thursday\u202f 12\u202fMarch at Podium\u202fExplore: Adriaan\u202fvan\u202fDis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The writer has recently released his new novel <em>Alles voor de reis <\/em>(<em>Everything for the Journey<\/em>). Not only does he have an impressive body of work to his name, but he is also a wonderful storyteller to listen to. On Thursday\u202f 12 \u202fMarch he will sit down with us for a conversation with Simon Dikker\u202fHupkes. He\u2019ll discuss his most personal book to date, poetry, infidelity, truth and lies, and especially a great love for an unforgettable woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cA sublime book, not only about \u2018love and lies\u2019 but also about decay and death.\u201d \u2014\u202fFrits\u202fAbrahams, <em>NRC<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alles voor de reis<\/em> (<em>Everything for the Journey<\/em>) is a novel about a great love and the loss that follows when it fades. He wanted to explain how it happens that people who fall in love with each other while working together both know each other and don\u2019t know each other at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/explorethenorth.nl\/en\/event\/adriaan-van-dis-en-simon-dikker-hupkes-van-dis-ongefilterd-on-tour-alles-voor-de-reis\/\">More information and tickets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I<em>In collaboration with dbieb and Van\u202fder\u202fVelde\u202fBoeken Leeuwarden.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last appearing as a guest in\u202f2018 during the Explore the North Festival, and back again on Thursday\u202f 12\u202fMarch at Podium\u202fExplore:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-onderdeel-van-een-categorie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adriaan van\u202f Dis at Podium \u202fExplore! 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