Against Elections

David Van Reybrouck is the author of Congo: The Epic History of a People, which won twenty prizes, sold over half a million copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. His book Against Elections has been translated into more than twenty languages and has led to the trial use of participatory democracy in numerous countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. His plays Mission and Para have been performed across Europe, and his novel Zinc won the European Book Prize 2017. Revolusi was first published in the Netherlands, where it was a major bestseller. David Van Reybrouck has been described as ‘one of the leading intellectuals in Europe’ (Der Tagesspiegel) and ‘one of the most brilliant European intellectuals of the moment’ (Le Soir). He is Belgian, writes in Dutch and is based in Brussels.

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