Bart Moeyaert artistic director Frankfurt 2016
27 June 2014
Flemish author Bart Moeyaert has been appointed artistic director of the programme to be presented by Flanders and the Netherlands as guests of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2016.
Jérôme Ferrari wins the European Literature Prize 2014
Award for Dutch translation of Le sermon sur la chute de Rome
25 June 2014
On Wednesday 25 June, in the radio programme Opium op 4, Alexander Rinnooy Kan announced that the European Literature Prize 2014 has been awarded to the French author Jérôme Ferrari and translators Jan Pieter van der Sterre and Reintje Ghoos for De preek over de val van Rome (published by De Bezige Bij).
More news
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Shortlist European Literature Prize 2014 announced
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La Superba
Libris Literature Prize for Pfeijffer
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Words Without Borders presents
Taboos: New Dutch and Flemish Writing
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Award for Andrea Kluitmann, German translator of Dutch literature
VvL-pennig 2014 geht an die Übersetzerin Andrea Kluitmann
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Grunberg and Slauerhoff reach the final
Best Translated Books Awards
Agenda
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4 Jun-31 July
Jesús Carrasco as WiR in Amsterdam
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18-24 August
Nanfang International Literary Festival
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7 September 2014
European Literature Prize 2014
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Toine Heijmans
Pristina
(Atlas Contact, 2014)
In this intricately structured novel, Heijmans delivers a compelling examination of the…
Annie M.G. Schmidt
The cat who came in off the roof
(Pushkin Press, 2014)
Minoes is a glorious, original and funny story. The theme, the openness of the main…
Vincent van Gogh
Scrivere la vita
(Biblioteca Donzelli, 2013)
Italian publishing house Donzelli recently published a selection of letters by Vincent…
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Translated Literature in England and America
Victor Schiferli
4 June 2014
In publishing circles the famous three per cent number is often mournfully cited: that is how many foreign-language translations are published in Britain and the U.S. as a percentage of the industry’s total output, from gardening books to thrillers, the remaining 97 per cent being homegrown. That three percent encompasses the entire rest of the world; therefore the proportion of books written in Dutch — as in the other “minor” languages — is minuscule. There is some good news, however: several new translation initiatives have sprung up, as well as a number of new, small independent houses concentrating exclusively translations.
