Gerda Blees at West Cork Festival
Join us for a Coffee and Chat with Dutch novelist Gerda Blees. Gerda's novel We Are Light was translated into English by Michele Hutchison and is published this year. It is a highly original novel about manipulation, vulnerability, and what leads people to reject science as they try to be better.
Gerda Blees is a Dutch author and poet. She taught at various universities for several years while doing linguistic research on Dutch-German lingua receptiva—conversations in which each person speaks their own language. We Are Light, Gerda’s debut novel, won the EU Literature Prize as well as the prestigious Dutch Booksellers Award in 2021. It was also shortlisted for the Libris Literature Award. It is published in English by World Editions in August 2023. She recently completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
Time and date: Wednesday 12 July 2023, 10:00 am
Location: Bantry House Tearooms
We Are Light is translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, a renowned Amsterdam-based translator and author. Her translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s novel The Discomfort of Evening was awarded the International Booker Prize.
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