literature
literature
Maxime Garcia Diaz
2 min reading time
deBuren Selects Maxime Garcia Diaz for Transpoesie
Her verses can be read on buses, trams and underground trains in Brussels.
literature
Dirk Vandenberghe
5 min reading time
'Bult' by Marieke De Maré: A Poetic Story About the Silence of the World
Marieke De Maré has written a dreamy, poetic story about how people who at first live apart eventually come together.
First Book
literature
Tom Christiaens
2 min reading time
Literature at the Push of a Button in Utrecht
The International Literature Festival Utrecht brings the vending machine that spits out short stories to the Netherlands
literature
Maaike de Wolf
3 min reading time
Maaike de Wolf: Stories
This week's Friday Verses are written by Maaike de Wolf. We translated her poem ‘Stories’.
Friday Verses
literature
Tom Christiaens
2 min reading time
16 Dutch Books You Need To Read This Autumn
Our selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.
literature
Martine Vermandere
7 min reading time
Spotted: The Real Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie’s iconic detective is probably modelled after a real-life Belgian policeman.
Series
Old Works, Young Writers
literature
Maud Vanhauwaert
2 min reading time
Maud Vanhauwaert: A Sorry Sight
This week's Friday Verses are written by Maud Vanhauwaert. We translated her poem ‘A Sorry Sight’.
literature
Jaap Grave
6 min reading time
A Soldier at a Typewriter. Alfred Birney’s Novel about Java
Birney's throat-grabbing novel 'The Interpreter from Java' about the colonial past in the Dutch East Indies highlights the lasting consequences of a civil war in a penetrating way.
Series
Moving Verses
literature
Benjamin De Roover
1 min reading time
Benjamin De Roover: syntax is older than civic architecture
This week's Friday Verses are written by Benjamin De Roover. We translated his poem ‘syntax is older than civic architecture’.
literature
Iduna Paalman
1 min reading time
Iduna Paalman: Keep Sterile, Do Not Prick
This week's Friday Verses are written by Iduna Paalman. We translated her poem ‘Keep Sterile, Do Not Prick’.
literature
Dirk Vandenberghe
8 min reading time
‘De Nobele Autist’ by Romana Vrede: Boundless Love for a Clever Brat
Actress Romana Vrede writes a letter to her autistic son, which makes for a tough, but loving book.
literature
Tom Christiaens
3 min reading time
And the Winners Are…
No less than three important literary prizes for Dutch-language writers were announced this week. Awards for literary fiction, a poetry debut and a complete oeuvre.
literature
Peter Theunynck
4 min reading time
Peter Theunynck: The Theatre of Love
This week's Friday Verses are written by Peter Theunynck. We translated his poem ‘The Theatre of Love’.
literature
Lieke Marsman
2 min reading time
Lieke Marsman: Belated Parliamentary Questions
Lieke Marsman’s artistic response to the corona crisis, inspired by the poem 'Abandoned Fortresses’ of Paul van Ostaijen.
literature
Jos Borré
8 min reading time
Aster Berkhof: The Man of 101 Books and Too Little Recognition
Aster Berkhof has reached the age of one hundred years. For a long time, he was one of the most read authors in Flanders. What should we remember of his oeuvre?
literature
0 min reading time
Dick Bruna, the Friendliest Maker of Picture Books in the Netherlands
No one in the Low Countries can claim NEVER to have seen any of Dick Bruna's pictures. Child or grownup, everyone in the Netherlands and Flanders is acquainted with his work. Despite the fact that for some reason or other his cartoon characters miffy, snuffy, boris & barbara and poppy pig aren't part of the common literary parlance, every single person in the Low Countries has, consciously or unconsciously, made eye contact in some way, at some time or other, with one of his pictures on stamps, posters or paperback book covers.
literature
Martin Michael Driessen
5 min reading time
My First Murder. A Short Story by Martin Michael Driessen
Martin Michael Driessen's delightful short story for the first time in English.
literature
Anke Verschueren
2 min reading time
Anke Verschueren: C’est la pluie
Anke Verschueren's artistic response to the corona crisis, inspired by the poem 'Lonely City' of Paul van Ostaijen.
literature
Luc Devoldere
2 min reading time
What Purpose Do Poets Serve in Times of Scarcity?
According to editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere, literature does not provide knowledge, let alone truth. Still, literature can make people better.
literature
Ulrike Burki
2 min reading time
Ulrike Burki: Berlin
This week's Friday Verses are written by Ulrike Burki. We translated her poem ‘Berlin’.
