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Bart De Wever

Flemish nationalist politician and the mayor of Antwerp.

Since 2004 De Wever is the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a party advocating independence for the Flemish region of Belgium within the EU; he is also a member of the Flemish parliament.

He played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole.

Since January 2013 he has been Mayor of Antwerp, following the 2012 municipal elections.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.

See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.

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Ross King

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Ross King (born July 16, 1962) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works.

King was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada and was raised in the nearby village of North Portal. He received his undergraduate university education at the University of Regina, where in 1984 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Literature. Continuing his studies at the University of Regina, he received a Master of Arts degree

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Kate Raworth

Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries.

Her internationally acclaimed idea of Doughnut Economics has been widely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses and political activists, and she has presented it to audiences ranging from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy movement. Her book, Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist is being published in the UK and US in April 2017 and translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese.

Over the past 20 years, Kate’s career has taken h

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Geert Mak

Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.

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Tom Lanoye

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Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born August 27, 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages. Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa).

Lanoye is not only a writer, but also an entrepreneur. As the youngest son of a butcher, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from

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Thea Beckman

Thea Beckman (1923-2004) was born in Rotterdam. She began writing in 1947, but it was not until her children were grown that she devoted herself to writing full time. Crusade in Jeans was first published in 1973. It became an overnight success, making her one of the most popular authors of juvenile books in the Netherlands. Ms. Beckman is fascinated by history and wrote books about many historical periods.

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Manon Uphoff

Manon Uphoff was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for numerous prizes. Vallen is als vliegen (Falling is Like Flying) has been a literary phenomenon in the Netherlands, making 32 ‘Best of 2019’ lists, being shortlisted for 4 awards and winning the prestigious Charlotte Köhler Prize.

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, scientific studies, columns, translations and anthologies. Exhibiting a powerful style and classical command of form, his work has contributed to literary revival and growing engagement, both of which are explicitly expressed in his work as a columnist and television documentary maker as well.

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Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel

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Rob van Essen

Rob van Essen (1963). Schrijver, vertaler, recensent Angelsaksische literatuur voor NRC Handelsblad.

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Johan Op de Beeck

Johan Op de Beeck is a well-known TV face and has had a renowned career in media and journalism for 35 years. Previously, he was active as an anchor of the VRT news, documentary maker, director of Canvas, presenter and interviewer of various talk shows and editor-in-chief of various media at home and abroad. Today he is an independent communications consultant and author of a series of successful non-fiction books, which do very well in the bestseller lists and are always well received.

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Sacha Bronwasser

Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.

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Bart Van Loo

Schrijver en conferencier Bart Van Loo (1973) heeft zich de voorbije jaren ontwikkeld tot een zeldzaam dubbeltalent. Met zijn virtuoze minicolleges in De Wereld Draait Door raakte hij bekend bij het grote publiek, maar in de eerste plaats is Van Loo natuurlijk schrijver. Van zijn hand verschenen de alom geprezen Frankrijktrilogie en de bestsellers Chanson en Napoleon. In zijn nieuwste boek De Bourgondiërs is Bart Van Loo op het toppunt van zijn kunnen.

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Bart De Wever

Flemish nationalist politician and the mayor of Antwerp.

Since 2004 De Wever is the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a party advocating independence for the Flemish region of Belgium within the EU; he is also a member of the Flemish parliament.

He played a prominent role in the 2007 Belgian government formation and presided over his party's victory in the 2010 federal elections when N-VA became the largest party in both Flanders and in Belgium as a whole.

Since January 2013 he has been Mayor of Antwerp, following the 2012 municipal elections.

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Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.

In 2024, he co-founded The School for Moral Ambition, a non-profit organization inspired by his latest book Moral Ambition (2025) that wants to help as many people as possible to take the step towards a job with a positive impact.

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Koen Schoors

Koen Schoors is professor aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij richt zich in zijn onderzoek voornamelijk op het bank-en financiewezen, de bedrijfsfinanciering en buitenlandse directe investeringen. In zijn opleiding en carrière stond de Russische economie vaak centraal. Zo is hij momenteel directeur van CERISE (Centrum voor Russische Internationale Socio-politieke en Economische studies).

Op vlak van economische crisissen is Koen Schoors specialist. Hij geeft regelmatig lezingen over dit onderwerp en wordt ook vaak als commentator in de media gevraagd om actuele socio-economische gebeurtenissen toe te lichten.

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Michiel Vos

Michiel Vos is een gerenommeerd journalist en Amerikacorrespondent. Hij woont midden in het bruisende New York en is dé brug tussen Nederland en de VS. Vos schuift regelmatig aan bij bekende talkshows en actualiteitenprogramma's, waar hij je meeneemt naar het kloppende hart van de Amerikaanse democratie.

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Alain Verheij

Theologian

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Safae el Khannoussi

Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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Theo Francken

Theo Francken (°1978) is vader van twee kindjes. Tijdens zijn eerste legislatuur in de Kamer blonk hij uit in ‘zijn’ domeinen asiel en migratie, defensie en het koningshuis.

Een man met een missie
Op initiatief van Theo is onder meer de wetgeving rond gezinshereniging verstrengd, de snel-Belgwet afgeschaft en betalen de leden van de koninklijke familie eindelijk belastingen zoals wij allemaal. Zo goed als alle media riepen Theo dan ook uit tot een van de beste parlementsleden van het land. “Neofiet Francken minoriseert de PS” en “een man met een missie”, kopte politiek commentator Walter Pauli in Knack.

Een nieuw overzichtelijk migratiewetboek moet de weg plaveien voor een eerlijke migratie met korte procedures, zonder achterpoortjes en een ev

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