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Chinese Children’s Book Prize for The Mystery of Life
3 December 2019
Once a year, during a large-scale literary festival in Shenzhen, China, the ten best children’s books of the year are chosen. Last Saturday it was announced that Het raadsel van alles wat leeft (The Mystery of Life. How Nothing Became Everything) by Jan Paul Schutten and Floor Rieder is one of the
Alice Wong Weaves Together Information and Stories
10 September 2019
Alice Wong (b. 1989) calls herself a story designer. She grew up in Hong Kong but has lived and worked in the Netherlands for a number of years. Chinese culture still plays a big role in her work, but what she is really interested in is something much more abstract and penetrating: how reality is sh
Romantic Anguish in China: a New Slauerhoff Translation
20 August 2019
Dutch literature is notorious for its lack of a romantic movement. Writer and maritime doctor J. Slauerhoff (1898-1936), however, published a supremely romantic novel in 1934: Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), set in Interwar China. This is now available to English-language readers,