7 May 2013
Tommy Wieringa has won the prestigious Libris Literature Prize 2013 for his novel These Are the Names (De Bezige Bij). This book is highlighted in our Spring 2013-publication, 10 Books from Holland, and was partially written by Wieringa, on invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, as a writer in residence at the NIAS in Wassenaar.
6 May 2013
Oek de Jong has been awarded the Golden Owl Prize 2013, which is the most important literary prize in Flanders. The prize consists of 25,000 euros and a work of art by Philip Aguirre. A panel of experts named De Jong’s novel Pier and Ocean (Atlas Contact publishers) the best Dutch literary work of the past year.
15 March 2013
When I arrived at NIAS in september 2012, I had brought the first draught with me of my translation of The Wapshot Chronicle, by John Cheever. I planned to start again at page 1, to undertake the long and painstaking process of polishing and correcting, tuning and tweaking, that is necessary to create a Dutch book that reflects its American original. This creative process is rather similar to writing a book, with the peculiar difference that the translator has not chosen the material, is ‘only’ rendering ready-made material in a different language.
