After ten years of producing this newsletter on a voluntary basis, we have decided that it’s time to leave this side of promoting Dutch books in English to others. The Low Countries, for instance, began publishing a similar list a few years ago. Anyone who is interested in continuing the newsletter in its current form is welcome to contact us.

In the meantime we hope you enjoy the current and our final crop of new Dutch books in English. Particularly exciting titles this time round are On a Woman’s Madness, Astrid Roemer’s first novel to be translated into English and The Complete Jip and Janneke, the first English translation of the large volume of Jip and Janneke stories, based on the revised Dutch edition of 2019. 

Many publishers are now selling directly to customers from their websites so please consider ordering your copies there and check out what else they have to offer. Or take a look at bookshop.org (US) or uk.bookshop.org (UK) and order from your local independent.

Books published from July 2022 through May 2023, plus a peek at the months ahead.

Fiction

Astrid H. Roemer, On a Woman’s Madness, trans. Lucy Scott. Two Lines Press.

Stefan Hertmans, The Ascent, trans. David McKay. Harvill Secker, Text.

Arnon Grunberg, Good Men, trans. Sam Garrett. Open Letter.

Jente Posthuma, What I’d Rather Not Think About, trans. Sarah Timmer Harvey, Scribe.

Elle van Rijn, The Orphans of Amsterdam, trans. Jai van Essen. Storyfire (Bookouture).

Gerwin van der Werf, The Hitchhiker, trans. David Colmer. Text.

Roger Van de Velde, Crackling Skulls, trans. Jonathan Reeder. Snuggly Books.

Nonfiction

Frank Westerman, We, Hominids, trans. Sam Garrett. Head of Zeus.

Bregje Hofstede, In Search of Sleep, trans. Alice Tetley-Paul. Greystone.

Bas von Benda-Beckmann, After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond, trans. Tony Langham, Plym Peters. Unicorn.

Fred Brouwers, Beethoven in the Bunker, trans. Eileen Stevens. Other Press.

Karel Davids etc., editors, The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective, trans. by Vivien Collingwood. Bloomsbury.

Michiel Panhuysen, In the Spell of the Barkley: Unravelling the Mystery of the World’s Toughest Ultramarathon, trans. Tanya Behiels. Bloomsbury.

Pieter van Os, Hiding in Plain Sight: How a Jewish Girl Survived Europe’s Heart of Darkness, trans. David Doherty. Scribe.

Steven Derix, Marina Shelkunova, Zelensky: Ukraine’s President and His Country, trans. Brent Annable. Canbury Press.

Thijs Launspach, Crazy Busy: Keeping Sane in a Stressful World, trans. Danny Guinan. Capstone.

Children’s and YA

Annie M.G. Schmidt, The Complete Jip and Janneke, trans. David Colmer, ill. Fiep Westendorp. Querido.

Anna Woltz, My Especially Weird Week with Tess, trans. David Colmer. Rock the Boat.

Bette Westera, Later, When I’m Big, trans. Laura Watkinson, Eerdmans.

Ed Franck, The Moon is a Ball, trans. David Colmer., ill Thé Tjong-Khing, Gecko Press.

Leo Timmers, Kind Crocodile, trans. Bill Nagelkerke, ill. Leo Timmers. Gecko Press.

Leo Timmers, Elephant Island, trans. James Brown, Gecko Press

Marc ter Horst, Snot, Sneezes, and Super-spreaders: Everything You Need to Know about Viruses and How to Stop Them, trans. Laura Watkinson, ill. Wendy Panders. Greystone Books.

Maranke Rinck, Popcorn Bob in America, trans. Nancy Forest-Flier, ill. Martijn van der Linden. Levine Querido.

Paul Biegel, The Gardens of Dorr, trans. Gillian Hume, Paul Biegel, ill. Eva-Johanna Rubin. Pushkin Press.

Sieb Posthuma, Mr. Coats, trans. David Colmer. Levine Querido.

Poetry

Nachoem M. Wijnberg, Nachoem M. Wijnberg, trans. David Colmer, New York Review of Books.

Hanny Michaelis, In an Unguarded Moment: Selected Poems, trans. Judith Wilkinson. Shoestring Press.

Elmar Kuiper, Earthskin: Selected Poems, trans. David Colmer. Copper Coin.

Willem M. Roggeman, What Only Painters See: Selected Poems, trans. Philippe Ernewein. Bamboo Dart Press.

Graphic Novels

Barbara Stok, The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding, trans. Michele Hutchison. SelfMadeHero.

Erik Kriek, The Exile, trans. Sean M. Robinson, Erik Kriek. Living the Line.

Looking ahead

As we sign off on our final newsletter we’d like to bring a small selection of forthcoming highlights to your attention for the months and years ahead.

August will see the publication of two children’s books translated by Michele Hutchison: The Starling’s Song by Octavie Wolters (Pushkin Press) and Raoul Deleo’s Terra Ultima (Big Picture Press/Bonniers). In October, Girls by Annet Schaap, translated by Laura Watkinson, will come out from Pushkin Press.

Notable fiction titles include two books translated by Kristen Gehrmann, Lale Gul’s I Want To Live (Little, Brown, date tbc) and Tobi Lakmaker’s The Story of My Sexuality (Granta, January 2024). Anne Eekhout’s Mary, translated by Laura Watkinson, will be published by Pushkin Press in November. Scribe will be publishing both the new Gerbrand Bakker, The Hairdresser’s Son (trs David Colmer, tbc 2024), and The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (trs. David McKay, 2025). Gerda Blees’s We Are Light (trs Michele Hutchison) will be published by World Editions this August. Faber will publish another of Hutchison’s translations, My Heavenly Favourite by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld in early 2024. Profile have bought Confrontations by Simone Atanga Bekono, translated by Suzanne Heukenfeld Jansen for publication January 2024. Last but not least, Two Lines will publish Off-White by Astrid Roemer in October (trs David McKay & Lucy Scott).

In non-fiction, Matthijs Deen’s Boundless River has been translated by Jonathan Reeder and Jane Hedley-Prole for MacLehose Press (date tbc). David Doherty has been translating Jan Brokken’s Baltic Souls for Scribe (late 2024).  Davids Colmer and McKay have translated Revolusi by another David – Van Reybrouck, for Bodley Head (February 2024). Jonathan Reeder is currently translating The Sound of Utopia by Michiel Krielaars for Pushkin Press. Brent Annabel’s translation of The Avant-Gardists by Sjeng Scheijen will be published by Thames & Hudson (date tbc). 

New Dutch Books in English

Issue No. 15: Autumn 2020

The big news about Dutch literature in English this year has been the unprecedented achievement of author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translator Michele Hutchison in winning the Booker International for The Discomfort of Evening. This is a tremendous achievement and one of the greatest Dutch literary successes in English so far. It is also the culmination of a remarkable run of critical and commercial success over the last ten to fifteen years.

          The Booker International in its current form is the most prestigious prize for translated novels in English and was created by merging the Man Booker International Prize for a body of work and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for best translated novel. In its current form the Booker International has only existed for five years, but in this brief period Tommy Wieringa’s The Death of Murat Idrissi (tr. Sam Garrett) and Stefan Hertmans’s War and Turpentine (tr. David McKay) have also been nominated. Dutch books also featured in the history of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which gave its format to the current Booker, with no less than two Dutch-language winners: Omega Minor (Paul Verhaeghen, self-translated, 2008) and The Detour (Gerbrand Bakker, tr. David Colmer, 2013).

          Another major prize that has seen a lot of Dutch success is the Dublin Literary Award for the best novel, original English or translated, published in the English-speaking world in a calendar year. The award was won by Gerbrand Bakker and translator David Colmer with The Twin in 2010. Arnon Grunberg’s Phantom Pain and Tommy Wieringa’s Caesarion (both tr. Sam Garrett) were shortlisted in 2005 and 2013 respectively, and Bakker/Colmer were shortlisted again for The Detour in 2014. Books by Cees Nooteboom and Connie Palmen were shortlisted in 1996, the prize’s inaugural year.

          Dutch-language books have also done well with other English literary and translation prizes. The translators of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar, David McKay and Ina Rilke, have been shortlisted and may yet win this year’s Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Annet Schaap and translator Laura Watkinson achieved a milestone when Lampie and the Children of the Sea was shortlisted as the first translation ever for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children’s and YA literature. And in 2011 the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation went to Judith Wilkinson for her translation of Toon Tellegen’s Raptors. I could continue in this vein about other prizes or the various short-listings for the Best Translated Book Awards and U.S. PEN Awards, Laura Watkinson’s seeming monopoly on the Batchelder Awards, or Dutch books that have climbed the bestseller charts. Suffice to say: with a brand-new Booker International win under its belt, Dutch literature in English is hot… but it’s been warming up for a while.

In addition to our usual round-up of recent and imminent publications, this newsletter features a special project by Strangers Press of the UK: a series of eight chapbooks introducing new Dutch writers in translations by up-and-coming translators, mentored by established Dutch-English literary translators. Approximately 10,000 words in length, the books are either fiction or nonfiction and have been published under the series title Verzet! See below for details.

Fiction

Alfred Birney, The Interpreter from Java. Translated by David Doherty. London: Head of Zeus, 2020. HB.

Dola de Jong, The Tree and the Vine. Translated by Kristen Gehrman. Oakland (CA): Transit Books, 2020. PB.

Strangers Press Verzet! Chapbook Series

These short paperbacks can be ordered individually.

Karin Amatmoekrim, Reconstruction, short stories translated by Sarah Timmer-Harvey.

Sanneke van Hassel, Shelter, short stories translated by Danny Guinan.

Thomas Heerma van Voss, Thank You For Being With Us, short stories translated by Moshe Gilula.

Bregje Hofstede, Bergje, autobiographical essay translated by Alice Tetley-Paul.

Jamal Ouariachi, The Tourist Butcher, short stories translated by Scott Emblen-Jarrett.

Nina Polak, The Dandy, short stories translated by Emma Rault.

Gustaaf Peek Resist! In Defence of Communism, pamphlet translated by Brendan Monaghan.

Maartje Wortel, Something Has To Happen, short stories translated by Jozef van der Voort.

Orders: https://distribution.nbni.co.uk/

Nonfiction

Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History. Translated by Elizabeth Manton, Erica Moore. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. HB.

Johan Huizinga, Autumntide of the Middle Ages. Translated by Diane Webb. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020. HB.

Cees Nooteboom, Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water. Translated by Laura Watkinson. London: MacLehose Press, 2020. HB

Miek Zwamborn, The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook. Translated by Michele Hutchison. London: Profile Books, 2020. HB.

Sanne Blauw, The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us. Translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen. London: Sceptre, 2020. HB.

Stefan Buijsman, Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable. Translated by Andy Brown. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.

Jan Caeyers, Beethoven: A Biography. Translated by Brent Annable. Berkeley; Los Angeles etc.: University of California Press, 2020.

Jelmer Mommers, How Are We Going to Explain This? Our Future on a Hot Earth. Translated by Anna Asbury, Laura Vroomen. London: Profile Books, 2020. PB.

Selma van de Perre, My Name is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor. Translated by Alice Tetley-Paul, Anna Asbury. New York etc.: Bantam, 2020.

Jan Verplaetse, Blood Rush: The Dark History of a Vital Fluid. Translated by Andy Brown. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. HB.

Children’s and YA

Bibi Dumon Tak, Leave a Message in the Sand. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Illustrated by Annemarie van Haeringen. Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, HB.

Edward van de Vendel, Little Fox. Translated by David Colmer. Illustrated by Marije Tolman. New York: Levine Querido, HB.

Jef Aerts, Bigger Than a Dream. Translated by David Colmer. Illustrated by Marit Törnqvist. Montclair; Amsterdam; New York: Levine Querido, 2020. HB.

Jef Aerts, The Blue Wings. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Illustrated by Martijn van der Linden. Montclair; Amsterdam; New York: Levine Querido, 2020. HB.

Syl van Duyn, Girl Out of Place. Translated by Ernestine Hoegen. Aurora Metro Books, 2020. Kinder- en jeugdliteratuur, PB.

Peter Goes, Timeline: Science & Technology. Translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Wellington: Gecko Press, 2020. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk

Jan de Kinder, Red. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Illustrated by Jan De Kinder. Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2020. PB.

Maren Stoffels, Escape Room. Translated by Laura Watkinson. New York: Delacorte Press, 2020. Kinder- en jeugdliteratuur, PB.

Poetry

Mustafa Stitou, Two Half Faces. Translated by David Colmer. Dallas: Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2020. PB.

Menno Wigman, The World by Evening: Selected Poems. Translated by Judith Wilkinson. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2020. PB.

Sasja Janssen, Putting on My Species. Translated by Michele Hutchison. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2020. PB.

New Dutch Books in English

This is an exciting time for Dutch literature with several nominations for highly prestigious British book prizes. Not only the widely-reported Booker International longlisting of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Evening is Discomfort, translated by Michele Hutchison, but also the first ever inclusion of a translation on the Carnegie Medal longlist for Annet Schaap’s Lampie and the Children of the Sea, translated by Laura Watkinson, whose translation of Gijs van der Hammen and Hanneke Siemensma’s Little Wise Wolf scored a Greenaway Award longlisting. February 2020 also saw the presentation in London of the biennial Vondel Prize for the best translation from Dutch into English. The winner was Michele Hutchison for her translation of Sander Kollaard’s Stage Four.

Fiction

Rodaan Al Galidi, Two Blankets, Three Sheets. Translated by Jonathan Reeder. World Editions, 2020. PB.

Hendrik Groen, On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 Years Old. Translated by Hester Velmans. Grand Central Publishing, 2019. HB.

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening. Translated by Michele Hutchison. Faber, 2020. PB. Orders: bridgetl@faber.co.uk

Tommy Wieringa, The Blessed Rita. Translated by Sam Garrett. Scribe, 2020. HB.  Orders: orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk

Felix Timmermans, Intimations of Death.  Translated by Paul Vincent. Valancourt Books, 2019. PB.

Esther Verhoef, Close to the Cradle: A Thriller. Translated by Alexander Smith. Amazon Crossing, 2019. PB.

Nonfiction

Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story Of Two Sisters’ Resistance In The Heart Of Nazi Territory. Translated by Joni Zwart. Seven Dials, 2019.

Margot Vanderstraeten, Mazel Tov: The Story of my Extraordinary Friendship with an Orthodox Jewish Family. Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole. Pushkin Press, 2020. PB. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Eddy de Wind, Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from within the Camp. Translated by David Colmer. Transworld, 2019. HB Grand Central Publishing, 2020. HB.

Jurriaan Benschop, Salt in the Wound: Encountering Contemporary Artists Across Europe. Translated by Susan Ridder. Garret Publications, 2019. PB.

Rick Blom, Hunger: How Food Shaped the Course of the First World War. Translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen. Uniform/Waterloo (Can.): Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019. PB.

Mariëtte Boon and Liesbeth van Rossum, Fat: The Secret Organ. Translated by Colleen Higgins. Quercus, 2020. PB. Orders: Lottie.chase@quercusbooks.co.uk

Nienke Denekamp, The Gauguin Atlas. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Yale University Press, 2019. HB.

Willemijn van Dijk, The Successor: Tiberius and the Triumph of the Roman Empire. Translated by Kathleen Brandt-Carey. Baylor University Press, 2019. HB.

Herman van Praag, M.. Deference to Doubt: A Young Man’s Quest for Religious Identity in First Century Judea. Translated by Rosalind Buck. Urim Publications, 2020. HB.

Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary, a Photographic Remembrance. Translated by Tony Langham and Plym Peters. Penguin. PB.

Simone van Saarloos, Playing Monogamy. Translated by Liz Waters. Musagetes Foundation, 2019. PB.

Ivo van Vulpen, How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small. Translated by David McKay. Yale University Press, 2020. HB.

Children’s and Young Adult

Tonke Dragt, The Goldsmith and the Master Thief. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Pushkin Press, 2019. HB. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Toon Tellegen, I Wish. Translated by David Colmer. Elsewhere Editions, 2020. HB. https://www.vanditmar.nl/  

Floor Bal, It Started with a Big Bang: The Origin of Earth, You and Everything Else. Translated by Kathleen Keenan. Ill. Sebastiaan Van Doninck. Kids Can Press, 2019.

Dick Bruna, Miffy x Rembrandt.  Translated by Richard de Nooy. Mercis, 2019. Children’s HB.

Annemarie van der Eem, I Want a Lion!.  Translated by Jesse Goossens. Ill. Mark Janssen. Lemniscaat, 2019.

Piet Grobler, Franciscus and the Animals.  Translated by Jesse Goossens. Ill. Piet Grobler. Lemniscaat, 2019.

Annemarie van Haeringen, My Mama.  Translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Ill. Annemarie van Haeringen. Gecko Press, 2020. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk

Benny Lindelauf, Fing’s War. Translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. Enchanted Lion Books, 2019.

Tom Schamp, It’s a Great Big Colorful World: Encylopaedia Otto-colorista. Translated by Michele Hutchison. Ill. Tom Schamp. Prestel, 2019. HB.

Dieter and Ingrid Schubert, Maurits Mouse and Rembrandt: The Master and his Mouse. Translated by Marije Matthew. Leopold, 2019. HB.

Noëlle Smit, In the Garden. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Little Island Books, 2020. HB.

Poetry

Charlotte Van den Broeck, Chameleon | Nachtroer. Translated by David Colmer. Bloodaxe Books, 2020. PB.  Orders: export@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk.

Toon Tellegen, Under a Giant Sky: Selected Poems. Translated by Judith Wilkinson. Shoestring Press, 2019. PB.

Menno Wigman, Beautiful Things: In Memory of Menno Wigman. Translated by David Colmer. Arc Publications, 2020 PB Orders: sue.arc@btconnect.com (tel: +44 (0)1706 812338).

Jan Baeke, Bigger than the Facts. Translated by Antoinette Fawcett. Arc Publications, 2020. PB. Orders: sue.arc@btconnect.com (tel: +44 (0)1706 812338)

Jules Deelder, Transeuropa: Poems. Translated by Scott Emblen-Jarrett. Holland Park Press, 2019. PB.

Frank Koenegracht, Early Snow: Poems, 1971-2003. Translated by Koenraad Kuiper and Sarah Hart. Spuyten Duyvil, 2019. PB.

Graphic novels

Eva Cardon, Us Two Together. Translated by Michele Hutchison. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. HB.

Joris Vermassen, Mad with Joy: A Graphic Novel. Translated by Jan W. Goeminne and Joe Sutliff Sanders. Ill. Joris Vermassen. Fanfare, 2019.

New Dutch Books in English

With the New Dutch Writing campaign starting up in the UK this autumn, Dutch writers will be a common sight at events and festivals across the channel until the end of 2020. This will boost the number of Dutch books published in English next year so watch this space… and do visit their site.

Meanwhile, this autumn’s line-up features big names like J. Slauerhoff, Stefan Hertmans, Herman Koch, and Griet op de Beeck. Pushkin Press continues to provide British readers with a steadfast selection of top-notch books – see Jeroen Olyslaeger’s tour de force Will and the charming and popular children’s book Lampie by Annet Schaap. AmazonCrossing has not lost its taste for Dutch and Flemish writers either, with three titles in this selection and more to follow in 2020.

Fiction

J. Slauerhoff, Adrift in the Middle Kingdom. Translated by David McKay. Handheld Press, 2019. PB. Orders: enquiries@handheldpress.co.uk

Jeroen Olyslaegers. Will. Translated by David Colmer. Pushkin Press, 2019. PB. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Herman Koch. The Ditch. Translated by Sam Garrett. Hogarth, 2019. HB

Stefan Hertmans. The Convert. Translated by David McKay. Harvill Secker, 2019. PB

Griet op de Beeck. Mona in Three Acts. Translated by Michele Hutchison. AmazonCrossing, 2019. PB

Martin Michael Driessen. The Pelican: A Comedy. Translated by Jonathan Reeder, AmazonCrossing, 2019. PB

Margriet de Moor. Sleepless Night. Translated by David Doherty. New Vessel Press, 2019. PB

Esther Verhoef. Mother Dear. Translated by Jozef van der Voort. AmazonCrossing, 2019. PB

Nonfiction

Eva Meijer. Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of The Living World. Translated by Laura Watkinson. John Murray, 2019. HB.

Onno Blom. Young Rembrandt. Translated by Beverly Jackson. Pushkin Press, 2019. HB. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Annejet van der Zijl. The Boy Between Worlds. Translated by Kristen Gehrman. AmazonCrossing, 2019. PB

Children’s and Young Adult

Annet Schaap, Lampie And The Children of The Sea. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Pushkin Press, 2019. HB. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Jozua Douglas, The Gruesome General. Translated by Michele Hutchison. Illustrations Elly Hees. Affirm Press, 2019. PB

Poetry for Children

Edward van de Vendel. Super Guppy. Translated by David Colmer. Illust. Fleur van der Weel. The Emma Press, 2019. PB. Orders: rebecca@inpressbooks.co.uk

New Dutch Books in English

Issue No. 12: Spring 2019

Dutch literature from the twenty-first and nineteenth centuries has been attracting attention this year with the longlisting of Tommy Wieringa’s The Death of Murat Idrissi for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize 2019 and the publication in New York of a new translation of Multatuli’s anti-colonial classic, Max Havelaar, now with an introduction by the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Meanwhile the interest in modern classics continues with the publication of Gerard Reve’s Childhood: Two Novellas and Jan Terlouw’s Winter in Wartime, both by Pushkin in London.

Fiction

Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company. Translated by David McKay, Ina Rilke. New York Review of Books, 2019 (NYRB Classics). PB. 

Gerard Reve. Childhood:Two Novellas. Translated by Sam Garrett. Pushkin Press, 2018. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Joost de Vries. The Republic. Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole. New York: Other Press 2019. PB. 

Tommy Wieringa. The Death of Murat Idrissi. Translated by Sam Garrett. Scribe, 2019. HB. Orders: orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk

Hubert Lampo. The Coming of Joachim Stiller. Translated by Paul Vincent. Valancourt Books, 2019. PB.

Sarah Meuleman. Find Me Gone. Translated by David Doherty. HarperPerennial, 2018. PB.

Karel van de Woestijne. The Dying Peasant. Translated by Paul Vincent. Snuggly Books, 2018. PB.

Anthologies

Amsterdam Noir. Various authors and translators. Akashic Books, 2018.

Nonfiction

Luuk van Middelaar. Alarums & Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage. Translated by Liz Waters. Agenda Publishing, 2019. HB.

Olivier van Beemen. Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. Translated by Bram Posthumus. Hurst & Co., 2019. HB.

Martijn van Calmthout. Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler’s Atom Bomb. Translated by Michiel Horn. Prometheus Books, 2018. HB.

Henkjan Honing. The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes us Musical. Translated by Sherry Macdonald. The MIT Press, 2019. HB.

Anton van der Lem. Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648. Translated by Andy Brown. Reaktion Books, 2018. HB.

Stefan van der Stigchel. How Attention Works: Finding your Way in a World Full of Distraction. Translated by Danny Guinan. The MIT Press, 2019. HB.

Children and Young Adults

Jan Terlouw. Winter in Wartime. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Pushkin Press, 2018. HB. Orders:  michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Marc ter Horst. Hey There, Earth Dweller! Translated by Laura Watkinson. Simon & Schuster, 2019. HB.

Peter Goes. Rivers: A Visual History from River to Sea. Translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Gecko Press, 2018. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk

Poetry

Lieke Marsman. The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes. Translated by Sophie Collins. Liverpool University Press, 2019.

Hagar Peeters. City of Sandcastles: Selected Poems. Translated by Judith Wilkinson. Shoestring Press, 2018. PB.

Leonard Nolens. An English Anthology. Translated by Paul Vincent. Carcanet, 2018 (Carcanet Poetry). PB.

New Dutch Books in English

The English-speaking world continues to catch up on Dutch classics. An Untouched House, the first English book publication of Willem Frederik Hermans’s Het behouden huis, is receiving some excellent reviews in the UK and has just been published in the USA. Other noteworthy recent publications include two new anthologies. The Lonely Funeral, a selection of essays by Maarten Inghels and F. Starik, features poems written for and read at paupers’ funerals in Amsterdam and Antwerp. Swallows and Floating Horses: An Anthology of Frisian Literature, part of Francis Boutle Publishers’ Lesser Used Languages of Europe Series, is a massive bilingual collection of both prose and poetry from the eighth century to the current day.

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Fiction

Willem Frederik Hermans. An Untouched House. Translated by David Colmer. Afterword by Cees Nooteboom.

Pushkin Press (UK), 2018. PB.Orders:  michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Archipelago (USA), 2018, PB. Orders: Kaia Hilson, khilson@penguinrandomhouse.com

Martin Michael Driessen. Rivers. Translated by Jonathan Reeder. AmazonCrossing, 2018. HB. 

Hagar Peeters. Malva. Translated by Vivien D. Glass. DoppelHouse Press, 2018. PB. Orders: export@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk

Sander Kollaard, Stage Four: A Novel. Translated by Michele Hutchison. AmazonCrossing, 2018. PB.

Eva Meijer. Bird Cottage. Translated by Antoinette Fawcett. Pushkin Press, 2018. HB. Orders:  michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Anthologies

F. Starik, Maarten Inghels. The Lonely Funeral. With poems by Menno Wigman, Joke van Leeuwen, Neeltje Maria Min etc. Translated by Jonathan Reeder, David Colmer, Donald Gardner, Michele Hutchison, John Irons and Francis R. Jones. Arc Publications, 2018. PB. Orders: sue.arc@btconnect.com (tel: +44 (0)1706 812338)

Swallows and Floating Horses: An Anthology of Frisian Literature. ed. Ernst Bruinsma, Alpita de Jong and André Looijenga. Translated by David McKay, Michele Hutchison, Susan Massotty, Paul Vincent and David Colmer. Francis Boutle Publishers, 2018. PB. Orders: clive@francisboutle.co.uk (tel: +44 (0)208 889 80867)

Nonfiction

Natascha Veldhorst. Van Gogh and Music. Translated by Diane Webb. Yale University Press, 2018. HB.

Children’s and Young Adults’

Edward van de Vendel. I’ll Root for You and Other Poems. Translated by David Colmer. Illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch. Eerdmans, 2018. HB. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com

Gijs van der Hammen. Little Wise Wolf. Translated by Laura Watkinson. Illustrated by Hanneke Siemensma. Book Island, 2018. HB. Orders: sales@thameshudson.co.uk

Philip Hopman. For Audrey with Love: Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy Translated by Ann De Clercq-Foley. Illustrated by Philip Hopman. Nord-Süd, 2018. HB.

Thé Tjong-Khing. Art with Cake. Translated by Charles Hugo. Illustrated by Thé Tjong-Khing. Mediterrània, 2018. HB.

Schubert, Dieter. Schubert, Ingrid. Delft Blue: A Vase for the Princess Translated by Jan Michael. Illustrated by Ingrid Schubert, Dieter Schubert. Leopold, 2018. HB.

Harmen van Straaten. Hey, Who’s in the Loo? Translated by Laura Watkinson. Illustrated by Harmen van Straaten. Red Robin Books, 2018. PB.

Poetry

Cees Nooteboom. Monk’s Eye. Translated by David Colmer. Seagull Books, 2018. HB. Orders: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo18088

Graphic Novels

Serge Baeken. Sugar: Life as a Cat. Translated by Michele Hutchison. Illustrated by Serge Baeken. Soaring Penguin Press, 2018. PB.

Fans of Hendrik Groen, whose first book seems to be piled high at airports around the globe, will be delighted to see that the sequel is now out in English. The perfect English-language introduction to Dutch poetry is available in the print edition of The Enchanting Verses anthology of modern Dutch poetry, from Nijhoff to Perquin and including poets like Lucebert, Wigman, Vasalis and many others. (http://www.theenchantingverses.org/issue-xxvi-december-2017.html) And Amazon Crossing’s edition of Annejet van der Zijl’s An American Princess has made a big splash on release, with more online readers’ reviews than some books have readers!

Fiction

Hendrik Groen, On the Bright Side, translated by Hester Velmans. Michael Joseph, 2018.  HB.

Ernest van der Kwast, Giovanna’s Navel and Four More Stories, translated by Laura Vroomen. Scribe, 2018. HB. Orders: orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk

Bob Van Laerhoven, Return to Hiroshima, translated by Brian Doyle. Crime Wave Press, 2018. PB.

Cees Nooteboom, Mokusei!, translated by Adrienne Dixon. Seagull Books, 2017.  HB. Orders: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo18088990.html

Ida Simons, A Foolish Virgin, translated by Liz Waters. MacLehose Press, 2017.  PB. Orders: Lottie.chase@quercusbooks.co.uk

Peter Terrin, Monte Carlo, translated by David Doherty. MacLehose Press, 2017.  HB. Orders: Lottie.chase@quercusbooks.co.uk

Maartje Wortel, Goldfish and Concrete, translated by Michele Hutchison. Electric Lit, Inc, 2017.  PB.

Nonfiction

Midas Dekkers, The Story of Shit, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier. Text Publishing, 2018.  PB.

Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess, translated by Michele Hutchison. Amazon Crossing, 2018.  HB.

David Barnouw, The Phenomenon of Anne Frank, translated by Jeannette K. Ringold. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.  HB.

Douwe Draaisma, Forgetting, translated by Liz Waters. Yale University Press, 2017.  PB.

Ronald Giphart & Mark van Vugt, Mismatch, translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen. London: Robinson, 2018.  PB.

Arnold van de Laar, Under the Knife, translated by Andy Brown. John Murray, 2018.  HB.

Geert Mak, The Many Lives of Jan Six, translated by Liz Waters. Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2017.  PB.

Children’s and Young Adults’

Maranke Rinck, Tangram Cat, translated by Laura Watkinson. Lemniscaat, 2017. HB. 

Joukje Akveld, Get on your Bike, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2018. HB. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com

René van Blerk, Vincent and Camille, translated by Laura Watkinson. Rubinstein/Van Gogh Museum, 2017. HB.

Peter Goes, Follow Finn: A Search-and-Find Maze Book, translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Gecko Press, 2017. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk

Sjoerd Kuyper, A Hat for the Moon, translated by Jesse Goossens. Lemniscaat, 2017. HB.

Tosca Menten, Dummy the Mummy and The Golden Scarab, translated by Michele Hutchison. Van Goor, 2018. PB. Orders CB

Tosca Menten, Dummy the Mummy and the Tomb of Akhnetut, translated by Michele Hutchison. Van Goor, 2018. PB. Orders CB

Bibi Dumon Tak, Scout’s Heaven, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2018. HB. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com

Poetry

Poetry from the Netherlands, Nijhoff, Lucebert, Vasalis,Wigman, Schaffer, et al. (32 Dutch poets), translated by David Colmer, David McKay, Michele Hutchison and others. The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, 2017. PB. Orders: theenchantingverses@gmail.com 

Lucebert, The Collected Poems; Vol. 2, translated by Diane Butterman. Green Integer, 2017   PB. Orders: www.greeninteger.com

Edward van de Vendel, The Sexy Storm, translated by David Colmer. A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2018  PB. Orders: amidsummernightspress@gmail.com

Nachoem M.Wijnberg, Of Great Importance, translated by David Colmer. Punctum Books, 2018. PB. Orders: eileen@punctumbooks.com