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.