20 March 2019
From 21 to 24 March, seven Dutch illustrators and authors of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books will visit Germany. Dutch literature will be presented in ten events at the Leipziger Buchmesse and the corresponding Leipzig Liest reading festival.
19 March 2019
The Dutch Foundation for Literature and NIAS-KNAW invite publishers and others to nominate a writer for the witer-in-residence fellowship at NIAS-KNAW in Amsterdam for the academic year 2019/20. This prestigious position is intended for a writer who is working on a project that would benefit from an extended stay as part of a diverse community of international scholars. Nominations can be submitted until 1 May.
(Issue XXVI, 2017)
A special edition enumerating Dutch poetry over the past century till date has been…
(Ambo Anthos, 2018)
In Paths through Slavery, Karwan Fatah-Black definitively reorients our understanding…
(Atlas Contact, 2019)
At the end of the 1950s, the young Jutka Horvath finds a woman’s handbag and returns it…
(Querido, 2018)
Little Fox is the result of a real urge to experiment, the power of language, a love of…
6 March 2019
You are unexpectedly struck by it almost anywhere you turn. I found it among the ditches of Zaanse Schans, in the glare from the sea as I cycled round Walcheren peninsula, and – disconcertingly – aboard a train crossing the Waal at Zaltbommel only moments after I had read in Amsterdam Stories Nescio’s description of the sun shining infinitely, eternally on the water there.
