Event 21 Yael Van der Wouden in conversation with Irene Hernandez Velasco

by IE Foundation

On Campus Arts & humanities Segovia Campus

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Fri, Sep 12, 2025

7:30 PM – 8:20 PM (GMT+2)

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CAMPUS SEGOVIA
IE University - Sala Capitular

Calle Cardenal Zúñiga, 12, 40003 Segovia, Spain

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Desire as attraction and repulsion. Its eruption into the everyday, into the small things that inhabit a life, a home, a familiar environment, and the way it erodes everything until it transforms it. This is how Yael van der Wouden has approached her first work of fiction, The Safekeep, which has received unusual support from critics. The writer declares herself not very fond of conventionalisms, especially when two women face desire as a lever of self-destruction.

She will exchange with Irene Hernández Velasco, head of the Culture section at El Confidencial.

Presented by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Spain, Roel Nieuwenkamp.

At the end of the conversation the author will stay to sign some of her works

The event is in English with direct translation in Spanish available

Dress Casual (jeans ok)

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CAMPUS SEGOVIA
IE University - Sala Capitular

Calle Cardenal Zúñiga, 12, 40003 Segovia, Spain

Speakers

Irene Hernandez Velasco

Head of Cultural Section

EL Confidencial

ES: es una periodista española. Estudió en el Colegio Estudio de Madrid y en 1985 comenzó a cursar la carrera de periodismo en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde se licenció en Ciencias de la Información en 1990.

EN: is a Spanish journalist. She studied at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid and in 1985 she began studying journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she graduated in Information Sciences in 1990.

Yael Van der Wouden

Author

Yael van der Wouden is a writer and professor of creative writing and comparative literature. Although born in Tel Aviv (Israel), she was raised in the Netherlands. Her first novel has sold rights in about ten countries after being purchased at auction by numerous top-tier publishers. The work was a finalist for the prestigious Booker Prize. Her essay on Dutch identity and Judaism, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018.

Roel NIEUWENKAMPS

Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherland to Spain

Roel Nieuwenkamp has been the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Spain since 2022 . Prior to this, he served as the Dutch Ambassador to Argentina from 2018 to 2022 . He has a distinguished career in economic affairs, having held positions such as Chairman of the International Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility at the OECD from 2013 to 2018.

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