In the exact middle of Penguin’s impressive first collection of Dutch short stories is Cees Nooteboom’s ‘Paula’. Indulging in unashamed nostalgia, the narrator recalls the
From the 2016 reviews of our Dutch literature in translation 100 Dutch-Language Poems – From the Medieval Period to the Present Day, selected and translated by Paul Vincen
Here is Aimée Hardy’s video review of Tirza by Arnon Grunberg, translated by Sam Garrett, published by Open Letter Books:
A Dutch book that needs to be translated My absolute favourite Dutch novel, the one that grips me every time I read it, is De Verstotene by Naima El Bezaz. The title translates rou
First published in 1992, Harry Mulisch’s The Discovery of Heaven received its English translation in 1998, and was reissued in 2011. Widely regarded as Mulisch’s masterpiece (a
What would you do if a disfigured seventeenth-century witch appeared in the corner of your living room? For the residents of Black Spring, a town in America’s Hudson Valley,
De Stichting ter Bevordering van de Vertaling van Nederlands Letterkundig Werk, (the Foundation for the Promotion of the Translation of Dutch Literary Works) was a State-funded qua
Esther Gerritsen’s Roxy is an interesting exploration of how a young woman copes with her husband’s death and tries to rescue her world as it slowly begins to unravel around he
Every man has his story, but it’s seldom an important one. (The Evenings) How do you write a novel where little happens? How do you write a review of a novel where little happen
This is a novel one reads with an eyebrow raised and a wry smile, so intriguing is the main narrative voice. Yet the reader will also be left scratching their head at a plot steepe
