14 June 2018
Dutch author Cees Nooteboom has won the Premio Internazionale Elena Violani – Landi, the international literary prize from the poetry centre of the University of Bologna. The prize was awarded to Nooteboom at the opening ceremony of the Oven Poetry Festival in Bologna in Italy on Wednesday 6 June. The prize money awarded with the prize is € 6.000
7 June 2018
The BookSpot Gouden Strop (Golden Noose) 2018 has been awarded to Willem Asman for his book Enter (Ambo | Anthos) by jury chairman Anniko van Santen. The Shadow Prize went to Eva Keuris for her debut Over het spoor. Willem Asman wrote Enter with a scholarship from the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Thanks to the new sponsor BookSpot, the Gouden Strop is worth an amount of € 20,000 this year.
(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…
5 December 2017
I took a lot of notes at this year’s inaugural Amsterdam and Antwerp Fellowship for Non-Fiction Publishers. A lot. And so when it came time to write this blog article, there was a fair share I had to whittle out. So, if your curiosity is piqued about anything written here, just ask: I’m pretty certain to have a slew more notes on it!
