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NEWS - 10.04.2024
Anne Thompson Melo wins Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2024
Translator Anne Thompson Melo has been elected as the winner of the Pereine Stevns Translation Prize 2024. This year, the prize was aimed at emerging translators from Dutch to English. Anne Thompson Melo will receive a translation commission. The prize was supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, the Centre of Expertise for Literary Translation and Martha Stevns.
NEWS - 14.01.2024
Ronelda S. Kamfer as writer in residence
The Dutch Foundation for Literature is pleased to welcome Ronelda S. Kamfer to Amsterdam, where she will reside as a writer-in-residence for three months. Kamfer is one of today’s most significant South African writers.
NEWS - 12.12.2023
Translation Grants
As a result of the fifth and sixth meeting of 2023, 86 grants were awarded to foreign publishers of Dutch literature. The translation grants are intended for the translation of Dutch graphic novel, fiction, children’s books, non-fiction and poetry. In total € 272.957 has been granted for the translation of the following titles:
NEWS - 23.08.2023
Romkje de Bildt new managing director
On 1 November, Romkje de Bildt becomes the new managing director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature. She succeeds Tiziano Perez, who announced in April that he will be leaving after ten years at the head of the national cultural foundation.
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Bas von Benda-Beckmann
A Tablecloth for Hitler
Growing up in a German-Dutch family, historian Bas von Benda-Beckmann developed a particular interest in the Second World War. His grandmother’s sister had been married to Hitler’s most trusted general Alfred Jodl, who was hanged for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials. Another sister, meanwhile, had turned away from Nazism when she fell in love with a half-Jewish doctor, and personally knew those involved in Hitler’s failed assassination attempt in 1944.
Rob Wijnberg
Truth be Sold — On Truth in the 21st Century and Beyond
Anyone who reads the news and follows the discussions on social media can hardly help but conclude that nowadays we only believe in our own truth. The result: a society without solidarity and a declining trust in politics and media. In this book, philosopher Rob Wijnberg brings a powerful corrective to the information war of our time and shows us that truth is still alive and well.
Joël Broekaert
A History of the World in Twelve Beans
Beans have never been sexy. Throughout history, they’ve always been seen as a poor person’s alternative to meat. And yet beans, apart from being incredibly nutritious and good for soil, have played a fundamental role in the human story. Culinary journalist Joël Broekaert brings us a playful world history, as told through twelve beans – or rather, ten plus two which we often consider beans but aren’t really: coffee and cacao.
Annejet van der Zijl
Sonny Boy
‘Sonny Boy’, the title of an Al Jolson song from 1928, was the nickname given to Waldemar Nods and Rika van der Lans’ little boy. 1928 was the year their impossible love began, a love they kept alive against all the odds. The contrast could not have been greater: Waldemar was a seriousminded black student from Paramaribo in Surinam, not yet twenty, son of a gold prospector and grandson of a woman who had yet to free herself from the chains of slavery; Rika was the daughter of a Catholic potato wholesaler, warm-hearted and obstinate, a married mother of four, approaching forty when they met. She was his landlady. When he moved in she had only just left her husband and was penniless, living with her children in a tiny rented apartment in The Hague.