For his novel Godenslaap (Divine Sleep) Erwin Mortier has been awarded the AKO Literature Prize 2009. The prize is one of the most important literary prizes in the Dutch-language area and consists of € 50,000.
Also nominated were Joris van Casteren (Lelystad), Joke van Leeuwen (Alles nieuw), Carolina Trujillo (De terugkeer van Lupe García), Christiaan Weijts (Via Cappello 23) and Tommy Wieringa (Caesarion).
PRESS RELEASE - At last a comprehensive, up-to-date history of Dutch literature is available in English once more. For years, specialists all over the world and foreigners interested in Dutch… Continued...
October 7, 2009 | fiction | news | press
[January 28: The Darkroom of Damocles is one of the 10 finalists, winner and runner-ups to be announced on February 19th] The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans, translated… Continued...
January 28, 2009 | fiction | news
For her novel Over de liefde (About Love) Doeschka Meijsing has been awarded the AKO Literature Prize 2008. The prize is one of the most important literary prizes in the… Continued...
November 4, 2008 | fiction | news
Of the 47,724 people who cast a vote in the NS Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek, a quarter chose the novel De overgave (Surrender) by Arthur Japin. The Prize consists… Continued...
October 30, 2008 | fiction | news
Jan Wolkers died on 19 October 2007, at 1.30 p.m. to be precise. It was a week before his 82nd birthday. A couple of days prior to his death, when… Continued...
The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature exists to promote interest in Dutch-language literature abroad. Continued...
By Cees Nooteboom. Histories of Dutch literature identify the novel Character as a work of the New Objectivity, a movement from the first half of the twentieth century that came as a reaction to the lyrical and symbolist prose that preceded it. Continued...
By Milan Kundera. History as it is recorded on the collective memory bears little resemblance to what actual people lived through. Without realising, people eventually come to be fashion their memories on what is said in the present. Then, one day, a novelist... Continued...
By Onno Blom. Dutch literature has much to offer, even when compared to the literatures from close-by Germany, France and Britain. Onno Blom charts the developments over the last five years. Continued...
By Jaap Goedegebuure. Dutch is a language spoken not only by some twenty-five million people living in the Netherlands and Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) but also in Surinam and on the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba. Authors who write in Dutch can therefore communicate with readers in a variety of different countries. Continued...
By Hermann Wallmann. One of Germany's leading critics, Hermann Wallmann, discovered Dutch and Flemish literature before the crucial 1993 Schwerpunkt at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, he has seen many Dutch-language authors break through to the German market. What's the secret of their success? How is Dutch literature seen from abroad? And, is there really such a thing as Dutch literature? Continued...
