A quiet departure, short description Kay has moved from the Netherlands to the United States for a job in a university town, fleeing her past – when she used to be Kathelijne –
‘What is it about Dutch literature?’ is the question presenter Rosie Goldsmith posed to a packed crowd at the London Tabernacle on Tuesday night. ‘Are the Dutch just very
At one time I was a very traditional boy. I was a senator in the cadet corps of the Royal Military Academy (Dutch acronym KMA) and in my spare time I wore a blazer with the KMA emb
Someone recently asked me what defines Dutch literature. For a moment I found myself in a tight spot: I had to come clean. I thought about a few sentences from Herman Koch’s nove
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
