8 February 2019
From 21 to 24 March, seven Dutch illustrators and authors of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books will visit Germany. Dutch literature will be presented in ten events at the Leipziger Buchmesse and the corresponding Leipzig Liest reading festival.
21 January 2019
South African poet and author Antjie Krog will be living and working in Amsterdam from 21 January to 20 February, at the invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. As well as being a writer worthy of the Nobel Prize for literature, Krog is a consummate literary performer. During her stay she will give a series of performances in the Netherlands and Belgium, including appearances during Poetry Week.
(Issue XXVI, 2017)
A special edition enumerating Dutch poetry over the past century till date has been…
(Cossee, 2019)
Much has been written about the treatment of depression, less about its meaning.…
(Prometheus, 2018)
In Other People’s Mothers, Mirthe van Doornik tells the story of two sisters, Kine and…
(Leopold, 2017)
A schoolgirl suffering from a burnout tries to understand and process her traumatic…
1 February 2019
From 21-23 January the Dutch Foundation for Literature hosted a group of publishers and editors of children’s literature from five different Anglophone countries to come and meet their Dutch colleagues and familiarise themselves with Dutch children’s literature. Anna McFarlane (Allen & Unwin, Australia) was one of them, and wrote a blogpost about her three-day picture book life in Amsterdam.
