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A biennial literary festival in Namibia.
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The Doek Literary Festival is a biennial celebration of Namibian and African literature that connects Namibian readers and literary artists with their counterparts in Africa and the African diaspora. The inaugural edition of the festival was made possible with a partnership with the University of East Anglia’s International Chair of Creative Writing.

In 2022, the Doek Literary Festival’s focus was fiction in the novel and short form.

FESTIVAL WRITERS

The 2022 Doek Literary Festival brought together writers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom in Windhoek for three days of sharing knowledge about storytelling and literary production.

TSITSI DANGAREMBGA
TSITSI DANGAREMBGA
Tsitsi is the award-winning author of Nervous Conditions (1989) which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Africa Region and was named as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world in 2018 by the BBC. Her second novel The Book Of Not was published in 2006. This Mournable Body, published in 2018, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020.

A filmmaker, playwright, and the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust, Tsitsi is the inaugural chair of the University of East Anglia’s International Chair of Creative Writing Program. In 2021 Tsitsi was awarded the PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression, the PEN Pinter Prize from English PEN, the Peace Prize from the German Book Publishers and Booksellers Association, and an Honorary Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In 2022 she was a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prizes.
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FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Curated to provide the attending public with stimulating panel discussions and engaging creative writing workshops, the program for the 2022 Doek Literary Festival was filled with events that engaged readers, writers, and lovers of literature. All of the festival’s events were free to attend.

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21 APRIL 2022

Doek Literary Festival: Day 1. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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22 APRIL 2022

Doek Collective's Creative Writing Workshop with Tsits Dangarembga. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Rémy Ngamije, Doek's founder and chairperson.

Doek Literary Festival: Day 2. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Querida.

Musical Performance By Querida. Doek Literary Festival: Day 2. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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23 APRIL 2022

Zukiswa Wanner (left) & Dalene Kooper, a member of the Doek Collective.

Creative Writing Workshop With Zukiswa Wanner. Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Creative Writing Workshop With Femi Kayode. Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Rémy Ngamije.

Creative Writing Workshop With Rémy Ngamije. Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Rémy Ngamije & Prof. Jean McNeil.

Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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