1 December 2021
The Belarusian writer Sasja Filipenko is invited by the Dutch Foundation for Literature to be their writer in residence during the month of December. During his stay in Amsterdam, Filipenko is finishing his sixth novel and working on a play.
30 November 2021
On Friday 19 November 2021, the German Gustav Heinemann Friedenspreis 2021 was awarded to writer Wilma Geldof and translator Verena Kiefer for the youth novel Reden ist Verrat, published by Gerstenberg Verlag (original title Het meisje met de vlechtjes, published by Luitingh-Sijthoff in 2018). In the Heinrich Heine Haus in Düsseldorf, the ladies received the cash prize of € 7.500. The book Het meisje met de vlechtjes was produced with a project subsidy from the Dutch Foundation for Literature, and the translation Reden ist Verrat was also supported by the foundation.
(2021)
The Dutch Riveter presents an abundance of (contemporary) Dutch literature in English…
(De Bezige Bij, 1971)
The central theme in Willem Frederik Hermans’ work is the Second World War. It was the…
(Nieuw Amsterdam, 2020)
Mafiopoli: a town or society run by the mafia (neologism from the Italian word…
(G.A. van Oorschot, 2019)
When the poet Hanny Michaelis’s diaries from the German occupation of the Netherlands…
12 November 2021
There’s no getting around it: 2021 has turned out to be the year in which the importance of translation and translations and the role of interpreters and translators has become more prominent than ever. Especially now, with Europe sometimes conspicuous by its absence from the world stage, it’s essential to maintain strong links between the countries of the old continent and to keep attention focused on free movement back and forth from one language to another. Translators are indispensable in this regard, enabling us to gain understanding and continue to garner knowledge of each other’s histories, backgrounds and lives, from a social, historical and cultural point of view.
