This year’s selection opens with a book that is impressive in every sense, telling a great story that places the birth and development of the European Union in the context of the political history of Europe. Luuk van Middelaar was one of the Netherlands’ most promising philosophers when he made his debut ten years ago with Politicide (see QNF 2000). Since then he has gained direct political experience in Brussels and The Hague and used it to write this standard work.
October 6, 2009 | features | non-fiction
For the last two years, the Grote Geschiedenis Prijs (Great History Prize) has been awarded to the year’s best historical book. This year the Prize, a sum of 10,000 Euro,… Continued...
October 7, 2008 | news | non-fiction
Over the past few weeks various British papers have published positive reviews of Ararat, the latest book by Frank Westerman. For example, Iain Finlayson wrote in The Times: “If any… Continued...
August 29, 2008 | news | non-fiction
Every year, on the occasion of the Leipzig book fair, the Preis zur Europäischen Verständigung (Prize for European Rapprochement) is awarded to an author who has committed himself/herself in the…
January 10, 2008 | news | non-fiction
Astronomy journalist Govert Schilling, author of Flash!, is to get his own planetoid: (10986) Govert. The boulder, about six kilometers in diameter, takes 3.32 years to orbit the sun on…
October 1, 2007 | news | non-fiction
Since 1997, the NLPVF has supported the translation of literary non-fiction produced by Dutch authors. Literary non-fiction comprises many genres, such as well-written monographs with an original approach to the theme, journalistic non-fiction, travel literature (auto-)biographies, essays, etc.
In all these genres, any translation subsidy granted depends on the quality of the book, the foreign publisher, and the translator. Academic and educational non-fiction, as well as manuals and non-fiction offering practical information (do-it-yourself, cookery books, etc.) are not included in the genres we subsidize. More information about the general terms and conditions, can be found on the translation grants-page.
Specialist expertise in an accessible form: how to present an academic author to a broad audience
7th International Non-Fiction Conference. 14-15 November 2008, Amsterdam.
By Ger Groot. Considering there are many highly literary works of non-fiction from Flanders and the Netherlands, Ger Groot asks how justifiably the position is that literature means 'fiction'. A look at a number of highlights. Continued...
