© Piet Vranckx
Writing Magic-Realistic Stories
Kunstenaar-coach: Fikry El Azzouzi
Literary studio
Atelier in Dutch
A child who speaks the language of animals, a jinn who takes on the role of a human being and moves in the city, a tree that stretches and, after years of silence, lets out its crackling voice.
By playing with magical realism, you literally expand the decor in which your characters move. You allow a different reality, so that the characters are present in a tangible and concrete way as in everyday life.
Imagination makes the invisible visible, the diffuse tangible and gives the inaudible a voice. That way, a wailing grasshopper and a whining jinn affect your mood and actions as much as a leaking faucet. In this studio we dive into the game of magical realism and get to work with our imagination. We give voices to what frightens us and we show what we want to make visible.
Max 10 participants
Fikry El Azzouzi is a writer of novels, plays, reports and columns. In 2010 he makes his debut as a novelist with the subtle and imaginative 'Het Schapenfeest'. The successor 'Drarrie in the night' (2014) has been translated into various languages and has been nominated for the Gouden Uil and the E. du Perron Prize. 'Only She' (2016), is the gripping final part of the trilogy around the main character from the two previous novels.
Meanwhile, El Azzouzi writes ten theater performances. His debut, 'Idle days' (2012) immediately won the Author's Prize for Performing Arts. For both the theater text 'Reizen Jihad' (2015) and the novel 'Drarrie in the night', El Azzouzi received the Ark Prize of the Free Word in 2015.
In 2017, with his company JuniorcEsAr and KVS Brussels, he made the theater concert 'Malcolm X', which will go down in the annals as theater history. In 2021 he will win the Ultima for Letters. His recent theater performance 'Who's Tupac' is currently touring Flanders.