Nightbook from Kiev

Nachtboek uit Kiev

© Helena Cazaerck

16.01.2023

KIEV - What does war do to people? Helena Cazaerck, philosopher, journalist and musician, travels to Kiev to find out. She wants to sketch not only the suffering but also the absurdity and irrationality.

In her weekly nightbook, she looks for stories between the lines of the war. In short scenes, she tries to make the reader sympathise with the characters she encounters. Homeless princes, horny fortune-seekers, Jehovah's mothers and psychotic do-gooders, all play a part in the all-too-human violence of war.

Photo: © Helena Cazaerck

Nachtboek uit Kiev

© Helena Cazaerck

Supported

€4,600 allocated on 08/12/2022

ID:

FPD/2022/1985

Themes

Armed conflict

Publication

PRINT/ONLINE (in Dutch)

Het lege reuzenrad draait almaar door, De Standaard, 19/11/2022.
Blijven Lachen, De Standaard, 26/11/2022.
Ra Ra Raspoetin, De Standaard, 03/12/2022.
Tears in Heaven, De Standaard, 10/12/2022.
Ira, de soldatenmoeder: 'we praten over alles, behalve over de doden', De Standaard, 26/12/2022.
Dimitri, 36, De Standaard, 07/01/2023.
Breek een hand, De Standaard, 14/01/2023.
Onbegonnen werk, De Standaard, 21/01/2023.
Prinseerlijk, De Standaard, 28/01/2023.
Streamend, De Standaard, 04/02/2023.
De viezerik op café, De Standaard, 25/02/2023.

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Helena Cazaerck

© Helena Cazaerck

Helena Cazaerck

Helena Cazaerck is a Belgian freelance journalist.

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