8 July 2019
Two young Dutch authors have been awarded the ANV Debutantenprijs, a prize for the best debut novel in the last year. Mirthe van Doornik was named winner by the readers jury with her novel Other People’s Mothers, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld was awarded by the professional jury with her novel The Discomfort of the Evening.
3 July 2019
On the evening of Wednesday 3rd July 2019 Dutch and British representatives from the world of books and translation will gather to celebrate the launch of New Dutch Writing at The Union Club in Soho.
(Issue XXVI, 2017)
A special edition enumerating Dutch poetry over the past century till date has been…
(Ambo Anthos, 2018)
In Paths through Slavery, Karwan Fatah-Black definitively reorients our understanding…
(Atlas Contact, 2019)
At the end of the 1950s, the young Jutka Horvath finds a woman’s handbag and returns it…
(Querido, 2018)
Little Fox is the result of a real urge to experiment, the power of language, a love of…
28 May 2019
Lieke Marsman’s very personal collection The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was translated from Dutch by Sophie Collins, and published last April by Pavilion Poetry. The book was written in the three months following the poet’s diagnosis of chondrosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, at the age of twenty-seven. It includes a series of short poems and an essay responding to Audre Lorde’s reflections on cancer, and mixes personal experiences of the disease with social criticism. The English translation ends with a translator’s note in the form of a letter to the author. The Poetry Book Society interviewed both the poet and translator to learn more about this moving book and its themes, and to explore their collaboration and the translation process.
