
Kopje Koffie #7: Gerda Blees
German book podcast about Dutch and Flemish literature
4 April 2022
Starring in the seventh episode of Kopje Koffie, the German book podcast about Dutch literature: writer and poet Gerda Blees. At the office of the Dutch Foundation for Literature in Amsterdam, Blees talks to Bettina Baltschev about the creation of her debut novel Wij zijn licht (Podium, 2020), which was awarded the Dutch Book Traders Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature. In January this year, the book was published in German by Zsolnay publishers, under the title Wir sind das Licht, in translation by Lisa Mensing.
