15 June 2022
Starring in the ninth episode of Kopje Koffie, the German book podcast about Dutch literature: Flemish writer Stefan Hertmans talks to Katharina Borchardt about his new book De Opgang (De Bezige Bij, 2020). In April of 2022, the book was published in German by Diogenes, under the title Der Aufgang, translated by Ira Wilhelm.
7 June 2022
From Wednesday the 8th of June until Saturday June 11th, programme directors and presidents of over ten German literature festivals will visit The Netherlands, at the invitation of Flanders Literature and the Dutch Foundation for Literature. This Fellowship takes place in the context of the Leipziger Buchmesse 2024, which will be hosted by the Netherlands and Flanders. During these intensive days, the organisers will get a broad overview of literature from the Low Countries and the opportunity to meet over fifteen writers and illustrators; all of which have upcoming German translations of their work.
(De Harmonie, 2021)
Although Zindzi Zevenbergen’s debut is about an invisible illness, the book itself is a…
(G.A. van Oorschot, 2022)
Sander Kollaard’s novels are astonishingly serene. His often run-of-the-mill characters…
(G.A. van Oorschot, 2021)
Borders divide the familiar from the foreign, the Self from the feared Other, and with…
(G.A. van Oorschot, 2019)
When the poet Hanny Michaelis’s diaries from the German occupation of the Netherlands…
14 December 2021
Between mid-November and mid-December, a presentation of Dutch children’s and youth culture called Ton monde, plein de merveilles took place in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. This multidisciplinary collaboration between Dutch foundations, French partners and the Dutch embassy in Paris consisted of screenings of Dutch children’s films, dance and theatre performances and, of course, literary activities.
