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Events

29 Oct
Repairing the Past: on We Slaves of Suriname

Mitchell Esajas and Tessa Leuwsha at Off the Shelf Festival

23 Nov
Literary Translation Workshops

Three literary translation workshops by leading translators from Dutch to English. Open to anyone with a sound knowledge of Dutch and native-speaker level English. Free to participate.

14 May
Pieter van Os at Boswell Book Festival 2023

An extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic.

4 July
Literary Translation Workshops

Three literary translation workshops by leading translators from Dutch to English. Open to anyone with a sound knowledge of Dutch and native-speaker level English. Free to participate.

14 Oct
Frank Westerman at Off the Shelf Festival

With an ancient skull as his starting point, Frank Westerman, one of Holland’s greatest non-fiction writers, travelled the globe tracing the search for the first human beings.

13 Oct
Drawing Back the Iron Curtain. At Cheltenham Literature Festival

Pieter Waterdrinker and other writers reflect on what happened when the communist experiment came to an end.

1 Oct
The Van Gogh Sisters

In this thoughtful and unprecedented biographical history, Willem-Jan Verlinden delves into previously unpublished correspondence in the Van Gogh family archives to bring Vincent’s three sisters out from their brother’s shadow, poignantly portraying their dreams, disappointments and grief.

The previously neglected voices of his sisters Anna, Lies and Willemien, with whom Vincent had intimate and sometimes turbulent relationships, are now uncovered.

28 June
Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet Book signing

At Reset Connect

25 June
Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet 'Movement'

What happens if we radically rethink how we use our public spaces? Could we change our lives for the better? At Blackwells Oxford

26 June
Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives

We all know what a hot topic Bristol’s cycling infrastructure is, so we thought it was time to call in the experts! At Storysmith, Bristol

News

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

Books

A Good and Dignified Life

A timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more humane society. Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) and Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) were critical Jewish mavericks who both suffered under violent political regimes and sought to reform systems of power. Although temporally…

Hiding in Plain Sight

An extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic. Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with…

In Light Years No One is In A Hurry

3:32 a.m., the hottest summer on record, and writer, poet and theatre maker Marjolijn van Heemstra cannot get to sleep. She lies in bed, scrolling through stories of rage and injustice, the climate crisis and political protest, her thoughts endlessly orbiting identity debates and the growing divisions around her. She…

Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives

Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities. Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question: who do our streets belong…

We, Hominids

A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human In this charming, thought-provoking book, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental questions: Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, tracing…

World of Patterns A Global History of Knowledge

A comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe. The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for…

Bold Ventures: 13 Tales of Architectural Tragedy

In thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects – architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire built in seventeenth-century France…

The Last Witness: Three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster

The awe-inspiring and gripping true story of the young man who survived not one, but three concentration camps, only – in the final days of the war – to be bombed while aboard a Nazi prison boat. Stowed away on top of a train, twenty-year-old Wim Aloserij escapes the obligatory…

Johan Cruijf: Always on the Attack

Johan Cruyff was one of the greatest footballers of all time, a worldwide phenomenon and arguably the most famous Dutchman of the 20th century. As a player on the pitch and later as a coach off the pitch, his brand of total football added a whole new dimension to the…

We Slaves of Suriname

Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by…