New Dutch Writing: News

14 Dec

Sanne Vliegenthart dives into Dutch reading culture

Here, you can find all of Sanne Vliegenthart's videos and posts.

16 Nov

books and quills' new video on Dutch reading culture

What makes a country’s reading culture unique? Sanne Vliegenthart's new video teaches you all about Dutch reading culture.

10 Oct

New Dutch Writing asks the big questions at UK Festivals this Autumn

New Dutch Writing campaign is delighted to welcome Dutch writers to the UK this Autumn with two key festival partnerships with Cheltenham Literature Festival and Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield. The exciting depth and breadth of the vibrant Dutch literary scene offers something for every reader in a programme of events featuring fabulous children’s books, insightful, timely nonfiction and brilliant contemporary fiction.

8 Feb

Dublin Literary Prize

Two Dutch and one Flemish author and their translators have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2021. The longlist is nominated by libraries around the world making it a great spotlight for international writing. The first Dutch winner of this prestigious award were in 2010 Gerbrand Bakker and translator David Colmer for The Twin, which has been translated into 25 languages.

29 Sep

New chapbooks

A series of new chapbooks published by UEA-based Stranger’s Press is part of the New Dutch Writing campaign. Short works by eight talented Dutch writers who had not yet been published in English have been translated by eight emerging Dutch-to-English translators, mentored by established literary translators. This second blog on the Chapbooks series reveals the experiences of the other four translators.

23 Sep

New Dutch Writing Translator in Residence continues

We’re delighted that due to further funding from the Dutch Embassy, the New Dutch Writing Translator in Residence, Alice Tetley-Paul, will continue in her post until spring 2021.

18 Sep

BCLT Summer School

The Dutch Foundation for Literature supported ten translators to attend the 2020 BCLT Summer School in July. One of them, Jenny Watson, wrote a blog about her experience.

28 Aug

Women in Translation Month

August is Women in Translation Month and we thought we would round up the month with highlighting not only some of the extraordinary Dutch women authors available in translation, but also books that women translators have brought to us, by rendering them so beautifully into English.

1 Jul

New chapbooks

A series of new chapbooks published by UEA-based Stranger’s Press is part of the New Dutch Writing campaign. Short works by eight talented Dutch writers who had not yet been published in English have been translated by eight emerging Dutch-to-English translators, mentored by established literary translators. In the first of a two-part blog, four of the emerging translators share what they learned from the project.

14 Feb

Translators’ House, Amsterdam

There’s an article on the wall in the Translators’ House that says it’s important for translators to live in the language and culture of the country whose books they translate. To wander the streets, do the food shop at Albert Heijn and go for a run in the Vondelpark.

1 Nov

Translator in Residence – ten days in Norwich

I’ve just started my new role as Translator in Residence, and this position encompasses so much more than just translating, as my first period of residence, ten days in Norwich, revealed.

1 Oct

New Dutch Writing Translator in Residence

The New Dutch Writing Translator in Residence is an innovative, peripatetic residency for an emerging translator running from October 2019 to November 2020. Our Translator in Residence for this period is Alice Tetley-Paul. The Residency will bring the power of translation to wide ranging audiences, focusing on Dutch Literature in translation, alongside the wider New Dutch Writing campaign.

3 Jul

New Dutch Writing launch in London

On the evening of Wednesday 3rd July 2019 Dutch and British representatives from the world of books and translation will gather to celebrate the launch of New Dutch Writing at The Union Club in Soho.