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NEWS - 10.04.2024
Anne Thompson Melo wins Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2024
Translator Anne Thompson Melo has been elected as the winner of the Pereine Stevns Translation Prize 2024. This year, the prize was aimed at emerging translators from Dutch to English. Anne Thompson Melo will receive a translation commission. The prize was supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, the Centre of Expertise for Literary Translation and Martha Stevns.
NEWS - 14.01.2024
Ronelda S. Kamfer as writer in residence
The Dutch Foundation for Literature is pleased to welcome Ronelda S. Kamfer to Amsterdam, where she will reside as a writer-in-residence for three months. Kamfer is one of today’s most significant South African writers.
NEWS - 12.12.2023
Translation Grants
As a result of the fifth and sixth meeting of 2023, 86 grants were awarded to foreign publishers of Dutch literature. The translation grants are intended for the translation of Dutch graphic novel, fiction, children’s books, non-fiction and poetry. In total € 272.957 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
NEWS - 23.08.2023
Romkje de Bildt new managing director
On 1 November, Romkje de Bildt becomes the new managing director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. She succeeds Tiziano Perez, who announced in April that he will be leaving after ten years at the head of the national cultural foundation.
Joke J. Hermsen
Under a Different Sky
From a young age, philosopher and writer Joke H. Hermsen has wrestled with the longing to be elsewhere – a kind of ‘farsickness’, from the German 'fernweh', which has gone paired with never quite feeling at home. When, during the pandemic, the feeling rises to a crescendo in her own house, she packs her bags. But everywhere she goes – from France to the Netherlands to Germany – memories wash over her.
Marcel Haenen
Penguins and People
A labour of love from journalist Marcel Haenen, 'Penguins and People' takes the reader on a gripping expedition into the very fabric of the penguin’s existence. He examines our relationship with the bird, from early encounters with navigators to captive penguins as crowd-pullers at zoos, from silver screen stardom ('Happy Feet', 'March of the Penguins') to penguin tourism and its current protected status.
Marc Hijink
Focus — The ASML Way
For decades the most valuable company in Europe operated in the shadows. The chips manufactured by its machines, power our smartphones and AI assistants, make our coffee and drive our cars and even guide cruise missiles. In fact, roughly 90% of all chips worldwide are made by ASML. In recent years however, the Dutch manufacturing company has found itself in the spotlight, at the centre of a geopolitical storm between the United States, China and Europe.
Eke Krijnen
A Real Parent — On Queer Parenthood
Who or what is ‘family’? Who gets to be a parent? And what happens when a family deviates from the standard heterosexual norm? These questions are central to the essay collection 'A Real Parent: On Queer Parenthood' by Eke Krijnen.