Belgium, Guest Professorships, 2026
Lize
Spit
Lize Spit was born in 1988 and lives in Brussels. Her debut novel, Het smelt (2026, eng. The Melting, 2021), spent a year at number one on the Belgian bestseller list, won numerous literary awards, and has been translated into 15 languages. Her second novel, Ik ben er niet (2016, I Am Not There), was also a great success. With De eerlijke vinder (2023, The Honest Finder) she stirred up an entire country. Autobiografie van mijn lichaam (2024, Autobiography of My Body) is her fourth novel.
Lize Spit will hold the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship for Literature at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin in the summer semester of 2026.
