19 October 2018
The Netherlands is known as an international front runner in the creation of arts and culture specifically for children. Children’s Books by Annie M.G. Schmidt, Tonke Dragt and Dick Bruna for instance have been and continue to be translated worldwide. Apps like A Distant Journey, based on work by Toon Tellegen, and Puzzling Poetry received international critical acclaim.
2 October 2018
Flemish author Jeroen Olyslaegers will be living and working as a writer-in-residence in Amsterdam from 2 October to 30 November, upon invitation by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. During his residency in Amsterdam, Jeroen Olyslaegers will work on a new historical novel and give a series of public lectures and interviews.
(Issue XXVI, 2017)
A special edition enumerating Dutch poetry over the past century till date has been…
( 2017)
They’re lucky cows, the 46 creatures at De Leemweg, a retirement home for cattle.…
(Atlas Contact, 2018)
Ivo van Vulpen, a particle physicist who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs…
(G.A. van Oorschot, 2017)
Former opera and theatre director Martin Michael Driessen’s sixth book is a comedy of…
5 October 2018
From 10-12 September the Dutch Foundation for Literature hosted a group of publishers and editors from the UK and the US to come and meet their Dutch colleagues and familiarise themselves with Dutch literature. Tynan Kogane (New Directions) was one of our Fellows, he wrote a blog post on his—“unique and immersive”—experience in Amsterdam.
