Maartje Wortel wins BNG Bank Literature Prize
27 January 2015
Last Thursday, author Maartje Wortel won the BNG Bank Literature prize. She receives the oeuvre award for young talent for her novel IJstijd.
Geert Mak wins Gouden Ganzenveer
Non-fiction author honoured
13 January 2015
Journalist and author Geert Mak is the recipient of the 2015 Gouden Ganzenveer (golden feather quill). The Academy honours Mak for his extraordinary engagement in both national and international history. The award will be presented to Mak on the 16th of April in Amsterdam.
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Maartje Wortel at the Van Eyck-academy
Writer in Residence in Maastricht
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Marie Hooghe wins Prix Scam
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Else Otten Übersetzerpreis für Bettina Bach und Rainer Kersten
für ihre Übersetzungen von Arjan Visser und Dimitri Verhulst
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P.C. Hooft Prize for poet Anneke Brassinga
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Buwalda’s Bonita Avenue debut of the year
Selected by Eimear McBride (The Independent)
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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3 February 2015
Else Otten Übersetzerpreis in Berlin
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4 February 2015
Arjan Visser and Dimitri Verhulst in Berlin
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9-13 February
Publishers Tour non-fiction
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15-22 February
Tsead Bruinja in Nicaragua
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16 Mar-1 April
Michaïl Shishkin as WiR in Amsterdam
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A walk on the wild side
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26 January 2015
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.
