There Are More Weinsteins… Power and Abuse in the Art Scene
12 maart 2020Award-winning journalist and author Matilda Gustavsson revealed one of the biggest #MeToo affairs in the world. Her investigative report about sexual abuse in the prestigious Swedish Academy resulted in the Nobel Prize in Literature not being awarded in 2018. What consequences has #MeToo had in the international literary community and cultural world? How to increase impact from here, and how to prevent things to going back the way they were? Join Gustavsson and Alma Mathijsen, Thursday March 12th, 8:30 PM at De Balie.
Matilda Gustavsson presents her findings and the book she wrote about the scandal, giving an insightful look into the dynamics of power and influence in the world of the arts. Together with Gustavsson and dutch author Alma Mathijsen we discuss what #MeToo has brought the literary community and the cultural world.
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Matilda Gustavsson (1987) is the award-winning journalist behind the already historical scoop that has rocked the Swedish Academy and the international literary community. Her trail-blazing literary reporting is the foundation of her bestselling book The Club – A Chronicle of Power and Abuse at the Heart of the Nobel Scandal.
Alma Mathijsen (1984) is a writer, and author of both novels and plays as well as essays and columns (NRC, Linda, Het Parool). Vergeet de meisjes (2017) was shortlisted for the BNG Bank Literatuurprijs.
