The Independent recommends Nooteboom’s Rituals
‘A foreign book we should all read’
10 February 2015
In The Independent blogger Ann Morgan recommends Cees Nooteboom’s Rituals as one of the ten foreign books we should all read.
Batcheler Award for Bibi Dumon Tak
5 February 2015
Mikis and the Donkey by Dutch author Bibi Dumon Tak and illustrator Philip Hopman and translated by Laura Watkinson is the winner of the 2015 Mitchelder L. Batcheler Award. Dumon Tak, Hopman and Watkinson have the pleasure of receiving this prize - given to the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States - for the second time. Soldier Bear, published in Dutch as Soldaat Wojtek, won the 2012 Batchelder Award.
Agenda
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31 October 2014 - 15 March 2015
Exhibition on Arnon Grunberg at UvA Special Collections
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5 Jan-5 March
Maartje Wortel at the Van Eyck-academy
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1 Feb-14 March
DBC Pierre as WiR in Amsterdam
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16 Mar-1 April
Michaïl Shishkin as WiR in Amsterdam
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14-16 April
London Book Fair 2015
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1 May-1 June
Eleanor Catton as WiR in Amsterdam
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1-31 July
Rachel Kushner as WiR in Amsterdam
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Arriving in my hotel room on the Publishers Tour around Flanders and the Netherlands for ten German editors and publishers, I switched on the TV to make myself feel more at home. The Fantastic Mr. Fox was on, Wes Anderson’s great film about three well-equipped farmers’ fight against the chicken-stealing Mr. Fox, which expands into a war between the animal and the human worlds. On the side, the film tells a story about the state of civilisation, about humans on the rampage and behaving like animals, and animals driven out of their natural habitats.
