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Liz Waters’ Choice: Multatuli and Renske Jonkman

7 November 2024

Every month, a translator of Dutch into English gives literary tips by answering two questions: which translated book by a Flemish or Dutch author should everyone read? And, which book deserves an English translation? To get publishers excited, an excerpt has already been translated. Liz Waters gene

Max Havelaar: The Great Dutch Novel Written in a Louche Brussels Bar

15 July 2022

The building has gone, but a dusty plaque on the wall of a Brussels sandwich shop marks the site of the louche bar where the Dutch writer Multatuli wrote his classic novel Max Havelaar.

Multatuli in the Age of Decolonisation and #MeToo

13 March 2020

Now that Multatuli, who was born two hundred years ago, is once again in the limelight, criticism of his ideas also resounds. Was the Dutch writer really such an anti-colonial rebel? And what about his preference for young girls? Elsbeth Etty, president of the Multatuli Society: ‘Multatuli-bashing

A Triple First and More: the New English Translation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar

21 May 2019

Max Havelaar, the classic novel by Multatuli about Dutch colonialism in Java, has a brand new English translation. Reinier Salverda, Honorary Professor of Dutch Language and Literature at University College London, reread what is perhaps the greatest Dutch novel of all and noticed many improvements.

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