18 June 2019
The shortlist for the European Literature Prize 2019 has been announced. Out of a longlist of twenty translated titles the jury has selected five from which the winner will be chosen. The prize will be presented 3 November 2019, during the Crossing Border festival in The Hague.
17 June 2019
Due to technical problems, the Dutch Foundation for Literature is temporarily not reachable by telephone. We are working hard to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. In the meantime, you can reach us by email: post@letterenfonds.nl.
(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…
28 May 2019
Lieke Marsman’s very personal collection The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was translated from Dutch by Sophie Collins, and published last April by Pavilion Poetry. The book was written in the three months following the poet’s diagnosis of chondrosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, at the age of twenty-seven. It includes a series of short poems and an essay responding to Audre Lorde’s reflections on cancer, and mixes personal experiences of the disease with social criticism. The English translation ends with a translator’s note in the form of a letter to the author. The Poetry Book Society interviewed both the poet and translator to learn more about this moving book and its themes, and to explore their collaboration and the translation process.
