13 September 2018
The jury of the European Literature Prize 2018 has announced that the award goes to Norwegian author Johan Harstad and his translators Edith Koenders and Paula Stevens, for the novel Max, Mischa & het Tet-offensief (Podium). The prize will be presented to the author and his translators on the evening of Wednesday 31 October at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague.
6 September 2018
The Amsterdam Fellowship is an annual programme in which the Foundation invites international literary editors to come and meet their Dutch colleagues and familiarise themselves with Dutch literature. As the Foundation will have a prominent presence in the US and the UK in 2020, with many performances by Dutch authors at literary festivals and other events, three fellowships will focus on English-language publishing houses. In september a group of fiction publishers will visit Amsterdam.
(Issue XXVI, 2017)
A special edition enumerating Dutch poetry over the past century till date has been…
( 2017)
They’re lucky cows, the 46 creatures at De Leemweg, a retirement home for cattle.…
(Atlas Contact, 2018)
Ivo van Vulpen, a particle physicist who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs…
(G.A. van Oorschot, 2017)
Former opera and theatre director Martin Michael Driessen’s sixth book is a comedy of…
21 July 2018
The international literary festival Bookstan in Sarajevo was recently held for the third time. What is the current state of literature in Bosnia, twenty-three years after the end of the war?
