Trophy @radiotrafika

oktober ’22 — Belgian writer, screenwriter, librettist, and journalist Gaea Schoeters speaks about her work with host Andrew Singer, focusing on the EUPL-recognized novel, Trophy, about an American trophy hunter in Africa, and we enjoy an excerpt from this work, in original Dutch and in Michele Hutchison’s English translation, performed by Bailee Wolfe.

This episode includes these musical breaks: (1) a clip from her Hitchcockian opera, “Private View” (composed by Annelies van Parys, English libretto performed by Jen Hadfield); (2) “Hunter” (an instrumental piece composed by Bart Van Kerchove, inspired by the novel Trophy, and (3) an excerpt from “Holle Haven” (based on a poem by Paul van Ostaijen, adapted and spoken by Gaea Schoeters)

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