Rashid Novaire
Autumn 2018
Starting from October 1st 2018, Rashid Novaire will be The Fifth Season's resident. Novaire will focus on writing a new novel in which the history of Den Dolder will play a role.
After writing 'Reigers in Caïro', Rashid published five novels. His most recent work, 'Zeg maar dat we niet thuis zijn', tells the story of a recently deceased refugee who contacts his relatives from the mortuary to make sure they find a grave to bury him in, in the Middle East. For this book, Novaire has been nominated for the second time for the Libris Literatuurprijs. He has also written plays that have been performed in Theater Bellevue in Amsterdam, the Ballhaus in Berlin en the Bayerisches Staatstheater. Novaire has been a writer-in-residence with a.o. CEAC99 in Xiamen, China and Villa Decius Association in Krakow, Poland.