27 November 2023
Translation Grants 2023
Fourth round of 2023
26 September 2023
As a result of the fourth meeting of 2023, 32 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 € 93.882 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
Agenda
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20 Oct-4 December
New Dutch Writing translation workshops
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8-10 December
Impressions d'Europe - Nantes (FR)
Highlights
Anjet Daanje
The Song of the Stork and the Dromedary
(Passage, 2022)
This masterful novel spans two centuries in a mosaic of styles and genres. Its central…
Koos Meinderts
Zebedeus and the Game of Goose
(Hoogland & Van Klaveren, 2023)
Koos Meinderts is not a writer of absolute truths, preferring instead to support the…
Maaike Meijer
Desperate Heroes
(Atlas Contact, 2023)
After decades of writing about the representation of women in cultural history, Maaike…
Fien Veldman
Xerox
(Atlas Contact, 2023)
In a European city, an unnamed customer service representative works for a start-up.…
Blog
Thou shalt be stubborn
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
16 August 2023
If you arrive in the Netherlands for the first time in your life and it’s December, it’s easy to get the impression there’s one test of Dutchness, one path to fitting in: ice skating. You can’t avoid it or pretend it doesn’t exist.
