17 May 2022
From September 2022 to February 2023, Michael Tedja will be writer in residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Amsterdam. At the invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the NIAS, Tedja will work here on his new novel, in which he investigates the history of his artistically creative family.
10 May 2022
The Dutch Foundation for Literature’s Translation Prize 2022 goes to Veronika ter Harmsel Havlíková. She will receive the sum of €15,000. The Foundation is giving her the prize in recognition of her outstanding translations of important Dutch titles into Czech, as well as her crucial role as adviser to new translators and as an intermediary on behalf of Dutch literature.
(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.
