On Friday 2 October, De Samenleesclub organises the fourteenth edition of the National Reading Lunch. Specially for this day, author Joke van Leeuwen writes the reading lunch story. The story will be read at hundreds of locations across the Netherlands to thousands of older adults.
Joke van Leeuwen is one of the most acclaimed authors in the Netherlands. She writes for both children and adults. Her novel Feest van het begin was awarded the AKO Literature Prize. For her oeuvre she has received, among others, the Golden Goose Feather, the Constantijn Huygens Prize and the Tollensprijs. Her new book Plooi u in tweeën was recently published.
On reading aloud, Van Leeuwen says: ‘Reading aloud and being read to is something beautiful that has no age limit. Once I read an entire story to my mother over the phone because she couldn’t read it herself due to her poor eyesight. So yes, let’s never stop reading aloud and being read to.’
The story will be read in libraries, community centres and care facilities. Omroep MAX broadcasts it on NPO 1, so older adults can also listen at home. The story appears in braille, spoken form, Frisian (in collaboration with Afûk), Papiamentu and easy-to-read language.
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