12 January 2023
From Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 January, representatives from nine German publishers will come to Amsterdam to get acquainted with Dutch literature, writers and publishers. This program takes place in the context of the Leipziger Buchmesse 2024, the largest public book fair in Germany, which will be hosted by the Netherlands and Flanders.
19 December 2022
As a result of the seventh (and last) meeting of 2022, 42 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 € 106.838 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
(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…
22 December 2022
The Spanish translation of Marcia Luyten’s book Moederland, about the young years of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, was recently published, translated by Marcela Cazau. At the invitation of the Argentinian publisher Planeta, the author made a promotional trip to Buenos Aires, supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Marcia Luyten wrote a report about her experiences.
