8 May 2023
Dutch children’s book author Annet Huizing has won the Premio di Letteratura per Ragazzi ‘Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento’ 2023, the prize for the best original or translated Italian children’s book. She received the prestigious ‘Premio Cento’ or ‘Cento Prize’ for Het Pungelhuis (The Burlap House), translated into Italian by Anna Patrucco Becchi as La casa del contrabbandiere (La Nuova Frontiera, 2022).
1 May 2023
The annual report of the Dutch Foundation for Literature gives an overview of all activities and grants in 2022, including temporary Covid-support for writers and translators as well as subsidies for all arts (on behalf of the six national cultural funds in the Netherlands) to support Ukrainian artists in the Netherlands and to improve both fair practice and inclusion in the Dutch cultural field.
(Passage, 2022)
This masterful novel spans two centuries in a mosaic of styles and genres. Its central…
(Querido, 2022)
About struggling with homework, about not being a man but not a woman either, about…
(De Bezige Bij, 2022)
Antiboy takes place at the messy intersection between gender and orientation, gender…
(Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2022)
Goldschmidt’s essays have been dubbed ‘Goldschmidt Variations’ in the past. Nothing…
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.
