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Dutch Foundation for Literature’s Translation Prizes 2016 to Alicja Oczko and to Harm Damsma and Niek Miedema

30 September 2016

On the name day of St. Jerome, patron saint of all translators, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Dutch Foundation for Literature’s Translation Prizes 2016. This year the prizes go to Alicja Oczko (Dutch – Polish) and the duo Harm Damsma and Niek Miedema (English – Dutch). The prizes will be presented on Friday 9 December in Amsterdam. A sum of 10,000 euro is awarded to the winner of each prize.

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Record number of ‘Neuerscheinungen’

Dies ist was wir teilen

14 September 2016

Never before has the Frankfurt Book Fair seen a guest-of-honour country manage to clock up so many translations in the run-up to the fair. The tally for translations into German of books from and about the Netherlands and Flanders, varying from travel guides and art books to literature, has exeeded the 450 mark.

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„Duitsland - Was ich noch zu sagen hätte“ is the motto of the 81st Boekenweek with Germany as its theme, and „Gute Nacht, Freunde“ the title of Christoph Buchwald’s recent publication about 25 German books that belong on every beside table - all linked to the Gastlandauftritt of Flanders and the Netherlands in Frankfurt this year. An excellent occasion to accept the invitation of the indefatigable Nederlands Letterenfonds and spend a few days discovering the literary scene in Amsterdam.

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