'Raw and unsentimental, 'Confrontations' is a powerful depiction of racism and resilience from one of the Netherlands' most exciting new literary voices.' - Bookshop.org about #simoneatanganabekono 's debut novel in English.
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👉 Order: t.ly/dBchx

Literary translation workshop double whammy! With anna asbury & Laura Vroomen this morning looking at graphic novels and this afternoon with David McKay on non-fiction. Thanks so much to them all and to the translators that joined them! #FlipThroughFlanders #NewDutchWriting

Happening right now! Literary translation workshop with the brilliant Kristen Gehrman with #NewDutchWriting and #FlipThroughFlanders Thanks to everyone for joining

Such fun at WigtownBookFestival with @marankerinck & Martijn Van Der Linden at their event talking about their brilliant Popcorn Bob events (books translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, pub. by Levine Querido). Never tried unicorn favoured popcorn until Saturday...... #NewDutchWriting

Congratulations to Astrid Roemer, whose book “On a Woman’s Madness” was nominated for the National Book Awards! The 1982 novel has recently been translated from Dutch into English by Lucy Scott.

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🍊What a beautiful review in the LA Review of Books of 'We Are Light' by Gerda Blees, translated into English by Michele Hutchison!

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Mauritanian writer Mohamedou O Slahi (Houbeini) ولد صلاحي
has been a resident of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) Amsterdam City of Refuge apartment since 2022. For the Dutch Foundation for Literature, he wrote a blog about his stay: ice skating, optimistic stubbornness and stubborn optimism.

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#Readinglist for summer!

Around 200 Dutch books have been translated into English in recent years, giving international readers access to fantastic Dutch fiction, non-fiction & poetry.

Find a selection of translated Dutch books on newdutchwriting.co.uk/books

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Marga Minco, one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely regarded as literary classics, has died at 103. nyti.ms/3pHSu2R

The brilliant Laura Watkinson in action running a literary translation workshop on children's literature this week for #NewDutchWriting & #FlipThroughFlanders Huge thanks to her and all those that came along!

Praise in Le Monde for 'Le client E. Busken' by Jeroen Brouwers, translated into French by Bertrand Abraham!

Yesterday's literary translation workshop with the brilliant Michele Hutchison - thanks so much to everyone who came along! #NewDutchWriting #FlipThroughFlanders

#Sachsen & #Niederlande verbinden viele gemeinsame Themen. Mit Mark Rutte haben wir über unsere kulturellen & wirtschaftl. Beziehungen gesprochen. Es ging aber auch um die #Migration . Niederlande & Flandern Gastland bei der Leipziger Buchmesse 2024 - die Einladung an Herrn Rutte steht! (SK)

Welcome! In June, American poet Paul Tran (Paul Tran) will stay in Amsterdam as writer in residence, at the invitation of the Dutch Foundation for Literature and Poetry International. Tran will be working on a new book and perform at the yearly poetry festival.

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Anna Woltz & @david_colmer Hay Festival today talking about their book My Especially Weird Week with Tess #NewDutchWriting

At The Book Centre Wex & Waterford today with Harmen van Straaten & Laura Watkinson with their book Hey, Who’s in the Loo? Published by Red Robin Books #NewDutchWriting

Off to Waterford for our first stop of the #NewDutchWriting tour with author & illustrator Harmen van Straaten & translator Laura Watkinson and their book Hey, Who’s in the Loo? Published by Red Robin Books

Happening right now! #NewDutchWriting and #FlipThroughFlanders literary translation workshop with the brilliant Jonathan Reeder. Thanks so much to everyone for attending and to Jonathan for running it! #TranslationTuesday

Catch brilliant author Anna Woltz and her translator @david_colmer this coming Monday 29th May Hay Festival where they will talk about their book My Especially Weird Week With Tess that has received amazing reviews & was The Times book of the week! hayfestival.com/p-20042-anna-w…

The Dutch Foundation for Literature congratulates Annet Huizing with winning the Premio Letteratura Ragazzi di Cento 2023, the prize for the best Italian children’s book, for 'La casa del contrabbandiere', translated from Dutch by Anna Becchi.

More information and full video: letterenfonds.nl/en/entry/3503/…