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No. 15, Autumn 2020

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 […]

No. 14, Spring 2020

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 […]

No. 13, Autumn 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.