Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

The literary festival of love Saint Amour will operate under the different name of Chagrin d’Amour this year. Instead of sweet loving and sensual seduction, this edition will be about debilitating love sickness and heartbreaking pain. Because when Cupid’s arrow hits the wrong target, the consequences can verge on pure torture. A string of popular and upcoming authors will draw portraits of what people do to each other when in love. They expose their damaged souls and pick up the pieces of broken hearts across the country with beautifully crafted phrases. Names coming in the course of the season.