Whit Monday
Offices closed
25 May 2023
The offices of the Dutch Foundation for Literature are closed on Monday 29 May, due to Whit Monday.
Annet Huizing wins the Premio Cento
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).
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…
Pim Lammers
I Think I Was Kidnapped
(Querido, 2022)
About struggling with homework, about not being a man but not a woman either, about…
Valentijn Hoogenkamp
Antiboy
(De Bezige Bij, 2022)
Antiboy takes place at the messy intersection between gender and orientation, gender…
Tijs Goldschmidt
Wolves On the Bridlepath
(Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2022)
Goldschmidt’s essays have been dubbed ‘Goldschmidt Variations’ in the past. Nothing…
Blog
Nineteenth-century glory and twenty-first-century commotion
Marcia Luyten
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.
