‘The writer’s job,’ Nabokov once wrote, ‘is to get the main character up in a tree, and then once they…
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In his international bestseller and first novel in English translation, The Dinner (2012), Herman Koch meticulously exposed the hypocrisies at…
The main reason I went to Finland was to do something with my hands. In 1973, doing something with your…
Jaap Robben is a poet, playwright, performer, and acclaimed children’s author. You Have Me to Love, his first novel for…
Sam Garrett is a prolific translator of Dutch literature, twice winner of the Society of Authors’ Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation.…
Simone Atangana Bekono‘s award-winning first poetry collection, how the first sparks became visible (trans. David Colmer), is out now in…
Karin Amatmoekrim is an award-winning Surinamese-Dutch writer with Indonesian, Chinese, African and Native American ancestry. She is the author of six…
‘What is it about Dutch literature?’ is the question presenter Rosie Goldsmith posed to a packed crowd at the London…
An American writer and literary translator, Sam Garrett has lived in Amsterdam for more than 30 years. He is fluent…
THE EPILOGUE The European project is a unique one in history. It is not an empire, it is not a…
