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This event on 20th October 2010 at 19:30 has past.

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“Yugoslav Requiem – a journey from soldier to poet”

Arnold Jansen op de Haar will be reading from Yugoslav Requiem. This poignant collection of war poems has been translated into English by Paul Vincent. In it the author reflects on his personal journey. He searches for his own identity and we feel his overpowering need of no longer wanting to belong to any group or organisation. Arnold will also use other material such as his blogs and columns to show how the collection came about and to give more insight about the translation process.

Arnold Jansen op de Haar (born 1962) was the commanding officer of the unit that secured Tuzla airbase for incoming UN aid in 1994, one year before the overthrow of the enclave Srebrenica in the former Yugoslavia. He left the
Grenadier Guards in 1995 to become a full time writer.

Yugoslav Requiem (Joegoslavisch requiem) was published in 2009 by Holland Park Press. Originally published under the title Soldatenlaarzen by JM Meulenhoff in 2002.

His novel King of Tuzla (De koning van Tuzla) was published in Dutch in 2009 and in English in 2010 by Holland Park Press. Originally published in Dutch in 1999 by De Arbeiderspers.

His novel Angel (Engel) was published in Dutch in 2009 and will be published in English in 2011.

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 7:30pm

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