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No. 16, Spring 2021

New Dutch Books in English There was much excitement here when Jaap Robben’s Summer Brother, beautifully translated by David Doherty, made the longlist of the 2021 International Booker Prize. Sadly it didn’t make the shortlist, but there’s always next year’s Dublin Prize. Last year, David McKay & Ina Rilke’s translation of Multatuli’s classic novel indicting colonialism, Max […]

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 […]