Claire Keegan talks about Small things like these - Crossing Border festival 2021

The Irish master of the short story Claire Keegan talks about her new work Small things like these. An unforgettable story about the price of courage, quiet heroism and tenderness. Set in Catholic Ireland in the 1980s, it asks profound and universal questions.

Interviewer: Helena Hoogenkamp

Crossing Border is an international music and literature and arts festival in The Hague, the Netherlands, founded in 1992 as a nonprofit organisation.

Main event is the annual Crossing Border Festival which pioneered, in bringing together two art forms that used to be considered poles apart: contemporary literature and popular music.

Crossing Border is an adventurous festival, with a staggering line-up of international and contemporary writers, spoken word artists, storytellers and musicians. Household names next to raw talent. It also offers regular crossover programs with other disciplines such as modern art, theatre or film.

Crossing Border also organises many literary events throughout the year like BorderKitchen.

For more information and the upcoming schedule, please visit www.crossingborder.nl