7 May 2013 - Awards
Tommy Wieringa has won the prestigious Libris Literature Prize 2013 for his novel These Are the Names (De Bezige Bij). This book is highlighted in our Spring 2013-publication, 10 Books from Holland, and was partially written by Wieringa, on invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, as a writer in residence at the NIAS in Wassenaar.
6 May 2013 - Awards
Oek de Jong has been awarded the Golden Owl Prize 2013, which is the most important literary prize in Flanders. The prize consists of 25,000 euros and a work of art by Philip Aguirre. A panel of experts named De Jong’s novel Pier and Ocean (Atlas Contact publishers) the best Dutch literary work of the past year.
6 May 2013 - General
Due to a technical problem, this website was temporarily unavailable on Friday. Both the English and Dutch parts of the site can now be used again. By clicking on ‘Grants’, for instance, you can view the up-to-date information on the different subsidies and their application forms.
19 April 2013 - Events
The online magazine Publishing Perspectives features an article on Café Amsterdam, the City of Honor program at the Buenos Aires Book Fair: “Amsterdam is well known for its innovative and trend-setting cultural scene. Visual arts, design, music and the film-industry, all excel in this city. So does the Dutch publishing industry: in spite of catering to a so-called minor language, it counts more than 4,000 publishing houses and almost 2,000 bookstores, and it has published 45 million books in 2012. No doubt, Amsterdam is one of the most interesting cities to look at when it comes to the creation of books and catalogues.”
10 April 2013 - Awards
Caesarion by Tommy Wieringa is one of the ten books contending for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013. Thanks to his shortlisted novel, Wieringa finds himself in the company of Michel Houellebecq (The Map and the Territory) and Haruki Murakami (1Q84).
2 April 2013 - Grants awarded
In the second meeting of 2013, in mid-March, 28 grants were awarded to foreign publishers of Dutch literature. The awarded translation grants are intended for the translation of Dutch fiction (9), graphic novels (3), children’s books (1), non-fiction (10) and poetry (5). In total € 126,555 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
28 February 2013 - Grants awarded
Erasmus and Spinoza will soon be published in an Italian and an Albanian translation respectively, Benny Lindelauf will be published in America and Annie M.G. Schmidt in South Africa and Hungary. In the first meeting of 2013 in mid-February, 34 grants were awarded to foreign publishers of Dutch literature. The awarded translation grants are not only intended for the translation of non-fiction (9) and (illustrated) children’s books (12), but also for theatre (1), fiction (9) and poetry (3). In total € 95,855 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
31 January 2013 - Awards and Authors
Ester Naomi Perquin‘s third poetry collection titled Cell Inspections (Celinspecties) has been awarded the VSB Poetry Prize, Holland’s most prestigious prize for poetry, worth 25,000 euros. The other nominees were H.H. ter Balkt, Luuk Gruwez, Sybren Polet and Menno Wigman.
7 December 2012 - International
At the last Frankfurt Book Fair, the Dutch Foundation for Literature presented a Dutch Classics brochure. One of the many titles in it was Oeroeg by Hella S. Haasse. Even though it was written in 1948, it is still considered one of the highlights of her literary career. This fall, Portobello Books published a new translation by Ina Rilke, The Black Lake, a reference to the black lake in which Oeroeg’s father drowns.
30 October 2012 - Authors
The day the 2012 AKO Literature Prize was presented, its first winner died. Bernlef was awarded the AKO Prize in 1987 for Public Secret. Best known as the author of Out of Mind (1984), which was published in twenty languages, he served on the board of the Literature Foundation from 1968 to 1970. He was also a poet whose twenty collections won him the P.C. Hooft Prize in 1994 and the translator of many novels and poems from Swedish and French.
15 March 2013
When I arrived at NIAS in september 2012, I had brought the first draught with me of my translation of The Wapshot Chronicle, by John Cheever. I planned to start again at page 1, to undertake the long and painstaking process of polishing and correcting, tuning and tweaking, that is necessary to…