2022 Doek Literary Festival Namibia's first international literary festival.

The 2022 Doek Literary Festival
in partnership with the University of East Anglia’s
International Chair of Creative Writing

The festival’s principal sponsor in 2022 was the world-renowned creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, United Kingdom, home to one of the most successful degrees in the discipline in the world, and whose graduates include Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Anne Enright and emerging writers from the African continent including Ayobami Adebayo.

THE 2022 DESIGN PARTNER

Turipamwe

THE 2022 VENUE PARTNER

Goethe-Institut Namibia.

FESTIVAL WRITERS

International writers: Tsitsi Dangarembga • Zukiswa Wanner • Femi Kayode • Jean McNeill
The Doek Collective: Charmaine //Gamxamus • Roxane Bayer • Kay-Leigh De Sousa • Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo • Katherine Hunter • Filemon Iiyambo • Dalene Kooper • Ange Mucyo

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Rémy Ngamije

BOOKSHOP PARTNER

The Windhoek Book Den

VIDEOGRAPHER & PHOTOGRAPHER

Namafu Amutse