To celebrate the publication of Amsterdam, the latest title in their City-Pick series of travel anthologies, Oxygen Books has made this short film bringing together a host of Dutch writers on their home ground.
Featured writers include Geert Mak, author of In Europe, Tommy Wieringa, and co-editor of the City-Pick Amsterdam book, Victor Schiferli.
June 2, 2010 | news
The NLPVF has specialists for fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and poetry. They all have their own page, where they publish their views on international and national trends, and where you’ll also find the latest selection of titles.
In the final week of the World Expo, the Dutch Cultural Centre in Shanghai (DCC) will open its doors to Café Amsterdam, a series of literary events bringing Dutch and Chinese authors together on stage. Three prominent Dutch authors - Cees Nooteboom, Margriet de Moor and Anna Enquist - will discuss their work and read to a Chinese audience along with their Chinese colleagues Wang Anyi, Chen Cun and Bi Feiyu. caféAmsterdam website.
The judges for this year’s Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize have shortlisted Sam Garrett’s translation of Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa (published by Portobello Books). The other nominees are Susan Wicks… Continued...
May 25, 2010 | news
Arnon Grunberg, Robert Haasnoot, Stefan Brijs and Cees Nooteboom will read in Madrid (May 17 - 19). A week later Bernlef, Laia Fàbregas and again Robert Haasnoot will read…
May 10, 2010 | news
One of the guides in the city-pick series from Oxygen Books is devoted to Amsterdam, offering a picture of the city in more than eighty translated extracts by writers including…
April 26, 2010 | fiction | news
The most prestigious literary prize of the Netherlands has been awarded to Charlotte Mutsaers, for her narrative prose, including the novels De markiezin, (The Marquise), Rachels rokje (Rachel’s Skirt) and… Continued...
December 19, 2009 | news
From 1 January 2010, the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (NLPVF) and the Fonds voor de Letteren (FvdL) have legally merged to form The Dutch Foundation... Continued...
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