3 May 2021
As a result of the first meeting of 2021, 78 grants were awarded to foreign publishers of Dutch literature. The translation grants are intended for the translation of Dutch fiction, children’s books, non-fiction and poetry. In total € 263.838 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
15 April 2021
Gerda Blees, Jente Posthuma and Raoul de Jong are nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature. The Netherlands is one of the 14 participating counties in the EUPL 2021. The EUPL awards one winner per country.
(Atlas Contact, 2020)
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s second novel tells the story of a forbidden love. An aging…
(Querido, 2020)
When Anne Frank’s father, Otto, returned to Amsterdam from Auschwitz, he sought to…
(Lemniscaat, 2020)
The little boy Babu looks for signs from his grandmother, who has passed away. She told…
(Prometheus, 2003)
Hafid Bouazza’s Paravion is like an Arab fairy tale in its composition, poetic and…
13 October 2020
What can you learn about the Netherlands through Dutch children’s books? Etsuko Nozaka, translator Dutch-Japanese, sees the Netherlands as a country with a great emphasis on freedom and individual rights. What kind of children’s books does that yield? In this blog, originally published by Ehon Navi, with more than 20 million readers one of the largest Japanese websites on childrens literature, addresses this question by zooming in on books by three Dutch authors: Anna Woltz, Els Pelgrom and Dick Bruna.
