The last few months have seen a bumper crop of Dutch books in English. Texas independent Deep Vellum has released Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s La Superba and the author is currently on a US book tour. World Editions has published six new titles and is finally getting some international attention with a rave review in the Irish Times for You Have Me to Love, the translation of Jaap Robben’s bestseller Birk. Book week author Esther Gerritsen’s Roxy is also appearing in English next month and Geert Buelens’s poetic history of the First World War has been published by Verso as a gorgeous hardback.

Books are listed by genre, with our choice of key titles at the top and the rest of our selection in alphabetical order by author. We have included a link to the publisher’s Dutch and Belgian distributor if we have it.

 

Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, La Superba, translated by Michele Hutchison. Deep Vellum, 2016. PB. Orders: Consortium (info@cbsd.com) or Ingram, Baker & Taylor. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dimitri Verhulst, The Latecomer, translated by David Colmer. Portobello Books, 2016. PB. Orders: sales@portobellobooks.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esther Gerritsen, Roxy, translated by Michele Hutchison, World Editions, 2016 PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jaap Robben, You Have Me to Love, translated by David Doherty. World Editions, 2015. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Terrin, Post Mortem, translated by Laura Watkinson. MacLehose Press, 2015. PB. Orders: Lottie.chase@quercusbooks.co.uk.

 

Kader Abdolah, The Messenger, translated by Niusha Nighting, Nouri Nighting. World Editions, 2016.  PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Hanneke Hendrix, The Dyslexic Hearts Club, translated by David Doherty. World Editions, 2016. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Jolien Janzing, Charlotte Brontë’s Secret Love, translated by Paul Vincent. World Editions, 2015. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Tip Marugg, The Roar of Morning, translated by Paul Vincent. Yale University Press, 2015. PB.

 

Peter Verhelst, The Man I Became, translated by David Colmer. Peirene Press, 2016. PB.. Orders: michael.geoghegan@btinternet.com.

 

Nachoem M. Wijnberg, The Jews, translated by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Punctum Books, 2016. PB. Orders: eileen@punctumbooks.com.

 

 

Children’s and Young Adult

 

Nienke Denekamp & René van Blerk, The Vincent van Gogh Atlas, translated by Laura Watkinson. Rubinstein/Van Gogh Museum, 2015. HB.

 

Peter Goes, Timeline, translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Gecko Press, 2015. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk.

 

Sylvia vanden Heede, What Dog Knows, translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Ill. Marije Tolman. Gecko Press, 2016. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk.

 

Laila Koubaa, Azizi and the Little Blue Bird, translated by David Colmer. Ill. Mattias De Leeuw. Book Island, 2015. HB. Orders: mo@centralbooks.com.

 

 

Non-fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geert Buelens, Everything to Nothing, translated by David McKay. Verso, 2015. HB. Orders: Marston, +44 (0) 1235 465500.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louise O. Fresco, Hamburgers in Paradise, translated by Liz Waters. Princeton University Press, 2015. HB.

 

Kader Abdolah, The Qur’an, translated by Niusha Nighting, Nouri Nighting. World Editions, 2016. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Jan Boersema, The Survival of Easter Island, translated by Diane Webb. Cambridge University Press, 2015. HB.

 

Floris Cohen, The Rise of Modern Science Explained, translated by Chris Emery. Cambridge University Press, 2015. PB.

 

Carolien Roelants & Paul Aarts, Saudi Arabia, translated by Donald Gardner. Hurst & Co., 2015. HB.

 

Friso Wielenga. A History of the Netherlands, translated by Lynne Richards. Bloomsbury, 2015. PB.

 

 

Poetry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nachoem M. Wijnberg, Divan of Ghalib, translated by David Colmer. White Pine Press, 2016. PB. Orders: dennismaloney@yahoo.com.

Various authors, 100 Dutch-Language Poems, translated by Paul Vincent, John Irons. Holland Park Press, 2015.

Bernlef, A Still Life, translated by Scott Rollins. Guernica, 2016  PB.

Herman Gorter, Poems of 1890, translated by Paul Vincent. UCL Press, 2015. HB.

 

The shortlist for the Vondel Prize for translations from Dutch into English was recently announced, with the following books and translators contending:

Betrayal by Adriaan van Dis (MacLehose Press), translated by Ina Rilke

Congo by David Van Reybrouck (Ecco/HarperCollins), translated by Sam Garrett

Craving by Esther Gerritsen (World Editions), translated by Michele Hutchison

In Those Days by Remco Campert (Shoestring Press), translated by Donald Gardner

The King by Kader Abdolah (Canongate), translated by Nancy Forest-Flier

The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt (Pushkin Press), translated by Laura Watkinson

Tirza by Arnon Grunberg (Open Letter), translated by Sam Garrett

 

The winner will be announced soon.

 

Other new publications of particular interest include The Secrets of the Wild Woods, a new Tonke Dragt in English; Tonio,under the international author name Adri van der Heijden; Fortunate Slaves, Tom Lanoye’s first novel to appear in English translation; and June, Gerbrand Bakker’s third novel in English.

Books are listed by genre, with our choice of key titles at the top and the rest of our selection in alphabetical order by author. We have included a link to the publisher’s Dutch and Belgian distributor if we have it.

 

Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gerbrand Bakker, June , translated by David Colmer. Harvill Secker, 2015. PB. Orders: Van Ditmar Boekenimport. Contact: Richard Pels, r.pels@vanditmar.audax.nl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Lanoye, Fortunate Slaves, translated by Michele Hutchison. World Editions, 2015. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Charles den Tex, Mr. Miller, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier. World Editions, 2015. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Annelies Verbeke, Assumptions, translated by Liz Waters, World Editions, 2015. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Bert Wagendorp, Ventoux, translated by Paul Vincent. World Editions, 2015. PB. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

 

Children’s and Young Adult

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tonke Dragt, The Secrets of the Wild Wood, translated by Laura Watkinson. Pushkin Press, 2015. HB. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan Paul Schutten, The Mystery of Life, translated by Laura Watkinson. Beyond Words Publishing, 2015. HB.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward van de Vendel, The Dog That Nino Didn’t Have, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2015, HB. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com.

 

Warre Borgmans, Roger is Reading a Book, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2015. HB. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com.

 

Annemarie van Haeringen, The Parakeet, the Mermaid and the Snail, translated by Jan Michael. Leopold, 2015. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis.

 

Jan de Kinder, Red, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2015. HB. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com.

 

Leo Timmers, Franky, translated by Bill Nagelkerke, Gecko Press, 2015. HB. Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk.

 

 

Non-fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adri van der Heijden, Tonio: A Requiem Novel,  translated by Jonathan Reeder. Scribe, 2015. PB. Orders: orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk.

 

Maarten Asscher, Apples & Oranges, translated by Brian Doyle. Four Winds Press, 2015. PB.

 

Martin Bossenbroek, The Boer War,  translated by Yvette Rosenberg. Jacana Media, 2015. PB.

 

Maxim Februari, The Making of a Man, translated by Andy Brown. Reaktion Books, 2015. PB.

 

Paul Glaser, Dancing with the Enemy, translated by Brian Doyle. Oneworld Publications, 2015. PB.

 

Fokke Obbema, China and the West, translated by Laura Vroomen. I.B.Tauris, 2015. PB.

 

Rudi Westendorp, Growing Older without Feeling Old, translated by David Shaw. Scribe, 2015. PB. Orders: orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk.

 

 

Poetry

 

Benno Barnard, A Public Woman, translated by David Colmer. Eyewear Publishing, 2015. PB. Orders: mo@centralbooks.com.

 

Hester Knibbe, Hungerpots, translated by Jaqueline Pope. Eyewear Publishing, 2015. PB Orders: mo@centralbooks.com.

 

 

With Esther Gerritsen’s Craving and Anna-Gine Goemans’s Gliding Flight, January 2015 saw the launch of a major new publisher of Dutch literature in translation, World Editions, an imprint of De Geus. Many more books are in production, so it’ll be exciting to see how these early editions take off.

Meanwhile, in America, translator Laura Watkinson has won her third prestigious Batchelder Award for Mikis and the Donkey, her second with Bibi Dumon Tak and Philip Hopman. Watkinson has now won three of the last four awards, and rumour has it that U.S. bookmakers have stopped taking bets on her winning another in 2016.

See below for the full list of recent publications.

Books are listed by genre, with our choice of key titles at the top and the rest of our selection in alphabetical order by author. We have included a link to the publisher’s Dutch and Belgian distributor if we have it.

 

Fiction

Esther Gerritsen. Craving, translated by Michele Hutchison. World Editions, 2015. HB. Translation of Dorst. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis (CB).

Tommy Wieringa. These Are The Names, translated by Sam Garrett. Scribe, 2015. PB. Translation of Dit zijn de namen. Orders: anne.bowman@faber.co.uk.

Anne-Gine Goemans. Gliding Flight, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier. World Editions, 2015. HB. Translation of Glijvlucht. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis (CB).

Renate Dorrestein. The Darkness that Divides Us, translated by Hester Veltmans. World Editions, 2015. HB. Translation of Het duister dat ons scheidt. FORTHCOMING. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis (CB).

Kristien Hemmerechts, The Woman Who Fed the Dogs, translated by Paul Vincent. World Editions, 2015. HB. Translation of De vrouw die de honden eten gaf. FORTHCOMING. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis (CB).

Saskia Goldschmidt. The Hormone Factory, translated by Hester Velmans. Other Press, 2014. PB. Translation of De hormoonfabriek. 

 

Children’s and Young Adult

Annie M.G.Schmidt. Scrumple – Dirty; Scrumple – Clean, translated by David Colmer. Querido, 2015. HB. Translation of Floddertje 1: Opgesloten, Floddertje 2: Schuim. FORTHCOMING. Orders: Centraal Boekhuis (CB), service@cb-logistics.nl.

Toon Tellegen. The Day No One Was Angry, translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Illustrated by Marc Boutavant. Gecko Press, 2014. HB. Translation of Is er dan niemand boos? Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk

Sieb Posthuma. Where is Rusty?, translated by Bill Nagelkerke. Illustrated by Sieb Posthuma. Gecko Press, 2014. HB. Translation of Waar is Rintje? Orders: www.bouncemarketing.co.uk

Leen Van den Berg. The Big Question, translated by David Colmer. Illustrated by Kaatje Vermeire. Book Island, 2014. HB. Translation of De vraag van olifant. Orders: mo@centralbooks.com

 

Poetry

Remco Campert. In Those Days, translated by Donald Gardner. Shoestring Press, 2014. HB. Orders: mo@centralbooks.com

 

Non-fiction

Cees Nooteboom. Letters to Poseidon, translated by Laura Watkinson. MacLehose Press, 2014. HB. Translation of Brieven aan Poseidon. Orders: Lottie.chase@quercusbooks.co.uk

Geert Mak. In America, translated by Liz Waters. Harvill Secker, 2014. HB. Translation of Reizen zonder John.

Erwin Mortier, Stammered Songbook: A Mother’s Book of Hours, translated by Paul Vincent. Pushkin Press, 2015. PB. Translation of Gestameld liedboek. Moedergetijden. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk.

Vincent van Gogh. Ever Yours: The Essential Letters, translated by Diane Webb, John Rudge, Lynne Richards, Sue Dyson, and Imogen Forster. Yale University Press, 2014. HB. Translation of De Kunst van het Woord. 

Gaston Dorren. Lingo, translated by Alison Edwards. Profile Books, 2014. HB. Translation of Taaltoerisme. 

Jan Brokken. The Music of the Netherlands Antilles, translated by Scott Rollins. University Press of Mississippi, 2015 (Caribbean studies/World music). HB. Translation of Waarom elf Antillianen knielden voor het hart van Chopin. 

Douwe Draaisma. Forgetting, translated by Liz Waters. Yale University Press, 2015. HB. Translation of Vergeetboek. 

Dick van Galen Last. Black Shame, translated by Marjolijn de Jager. Bloomsbury, 2015. HB. Translation of De zwarte schande. 

Ruud van der Rol, Rian Verhoeven. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary, A Photographic Remembrance, translated by Tony Langham, Plym Peters. Penguin, PB. Translation of Anne Frank.  

 

It may not end up matching the staggering success of The Dinner, but the early signs have certainly been favourable for Herman Koch’s Summer House with Swimming Pool, which has just come out in the UK. Pushkin Press continues its series of children’s classics with a new translation of Annie M.G. Schmidt’s much-loved Minoes, under the title The Cat Who Came In off the Roof and with a gorgeous retro look. Other highlights of the last few months include novels by Erwin Mortier and Willem Jan Otten and graphic novels by Willy Linthout and Jan Cleijne.

See below for the full list of recent publications.

Books are listed by genre, with our choice of key titles at the top and the rest of our selection in alphabetical order by author. We have included a link to the publisher’s Dutch and Belgian distributor if we have it.

 

Fiction

Herman Koch. Summer House with Swimming Pool, translated by Sam Garrett. Atlantic, 2014. PB. Translation of Zomerhuis met zwembad.

Erwin Mortier. While the Gods Were Sleeping, translated by Paul Vincent. Pushkin Press, 2014. HB. Translation of Godenslaap. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Willem Jan Otten. The Portrait, translated by David Colmer. Scribe, 2014. PB. Translation of Specht en zoon. Orders: anne.bowman@faber.co.uk

Bob Van Laerhoven. Beaudelaire’s Revenge, translated by Brian Doyle. Pegasus Crime, 2014. Translation of De wraak van Baudelaire.

 

Children’s and Young Adult

Annie M.G. Schmidt. The Cat Who Came In Off the Roof, translated by David Colmer. Pushkin Press, 2014. PB. Translation of Minoes. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Bibi Dumon Tak. Illustrations, Philip Hopmann. Mikis and the Donkey, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2013. HB. Translation of Mikis de ezeljongen. Orders: sales@albanbooks.com

Leen Van den Berg. Illustrations, Kaatje Vermeire. The Big Question, translated by David Colmer. Book Island, 2014. HB. Translation of De vraag van olifant. Orders: mo@centralbooks.com

 

Graphic Novels, Comics, Cartoons

Jan Cleijne. Legends of the Tour, translated by Laura Watkinson & Michele Hutchison. Head of Zeus, 2014. PB. Translation of Helden van de Tour. Orders: anne.bowman@faber.co.uk

Willy Linthout. What We Need to Know, translated by Laura Watkinson. Conundrum Press, 2014. HB. Translation of Wat wij moeten weten.

 

 

Non-fiction

André Aleman. Our Ageing Brain, translated by Annette Mills. Scribe, 2014. PB. Translation of Het seniorenbrein. Orders: anne.bowman@faber.co.uk

Paul Verhaeghe. What About Me?, translated by Jane Hedley-Prôle. Scribe, 2014. PB. Translation of Identiteit. Orders: anne.bowman@faber.co.uk

Nando Boers & Pedro Horrillo. Amigo, translated by Adrian Bell, Aad Janssens. Mousehold Press, 2014. Translation of Amigo! Wielermail.

Roelf Bolt. The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers, translated by Andy Brown. Reaktion Books, 2014. Translation of Leugenaars en vervalsers.

Cretien van Campen. The Proust Effect, translated by Julian Ross. Oxford University Press, 2014. Translation of Gekleurd verleden.

Henk van Gurp, Marcel Dicke & Arnold van Huis. The Insect Cookbook, translated by Françoise Takken-Kaminker & Diane Blumenfeld-Schaap. Columbia University Press, 2014. Translation of Het insectenkookboek.

Hedda Kalshoven. Between Two Homelands, translated by Hester Velmans. Illinois University Press, 2014. Translation of Ik denk zoveel aan jullie.

J.C. Kannemeyer. J.M. Coetzee, translated by Michiel Heyns. Scribe, 2014. Translation of J.M. Coetzee. Orders: anne.bowman@faber.co.uk

Luuk van Middelaar. The Passage to Europe, translated by Liz Waters. Yale University Press, 2014. Translation of De passage naar Europa.

Lodewijk Petram. The World’s First Stock Exchange, translated by Lynne Richards. Columbia University Press, 2014. Translation of De bakermat van de beurs.

 

 

 

 

It’s always exciting to see which Dutch & Flemish bestsellers get picked up abroad, and two of the biggest literary hits of recent years, Congo and Bonita Avenue, will appear in English in the next couple of weeks. In America, Aline Sax’s The War within these Walls won the Jewish Book Award and a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Award. Seagull Books have released a collection of Cees Nooteboom’s poetry and there are new novels by Dimitri Verhulst, Kader Abdolah and Otto de Kat.

See below for the full list of recent publications.

Books are listed by genre, with our choice of key titles at the top and the rest of our selection in alphabetical order by author. We have included a link to the publisher’s Dutch and Belgian distributor if we have it.

 

Fiction

Abdolah, Kader. The King, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier. Canongate, 2014. Translation of De koning. info@vanditmar.audax.nl

Buwalda, Peter.  Bonita Avenue, translated by Jonathan Reeder. Pushkin Press. PB. FORTHCOMING, April, 2014. Orders: michael@geoghegan.me.uk

Verhulst, Dimitri. Christ’s Entry into Brussels, translated by David Colmer. Portobello Books, 2014. PB. Translation of De intrede van Christus in Brussel. Orders: sales@portobellobooks.com

Aspe, Pieter. The Midas Murders, translated by Brian Doyle. Pegasus Books; Open Road Integrated Media, 2013. Translation of De midasmoorden.

Kat, Otto de. News from Berlin, translated by Ina Rilke. MacLehose Press, 2014. HB. Translation of Bericht uit Berlijn. Orders: Lottie.chase@quercusbooks.co.uk

 

 

Children’s and Young Adult

Prins, Marcel & Steenhuis, Peter Henk. Hidden Like Anne Frank, translated by Laura Watkinson. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2014. HB. Translation of Ondergedoken als Anne Frank.

Tellegen, Toon.  A Great and Complicated Adventure, translated by Martin Cleaver. Boxer Books, 2013. HB. Translation of Bijna iedereen kon omvallen.    

Lindelauf, Benny. Nine Open Arms, translated by John Nieuwenhuizen. Enchanted Lion Books, 2014. HB. Translation of Negen open armen.

Mortier, Tine. Illustrations, Vermeire, Kaatje. Maia and What Matters, translated by David Colmer. Book Island, 2013. HB. Translation of Mare en de dingen. Orders:mo@centralbooks.com

Sax, Aline. The War within these Walls, translated by Laura Watkinson. Eerdmans, 2013. HB. Translation of De kleuren van het ghetto. Orders:sales@albanbooks.com

 

Poetry

Nooteboom, Cees. Light Everywhere, translated by David Colmer. Selected poems. Seagull Books, 2014. HB. Orders: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo18088990.html    

 

 

Graphic Novels, Comics, Cartoons

Stok, Barbara.    Vincent, translated by Laura Watkinson. SelfMadeHero, 2014.PB. Orders: http://www.selfmadehero.com/contact.php

 

 

Non-fiction

Reybrouck, David van. Congo, translated by Sam Garrett. Ecco Press, 2014. HB.

Swaab, Dick.  We Are Our Brains, translated by Jane Hedley-Prole. Spiegel & Grau, 2014. HB. Translation of Wij zijn ons brein.

Groot, Laurens de. Hunting the Hunters, translated by Laura Vroomen. Bloomsbury, 2014. PB. Translation of Jacht op de jagers.