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19 Dutch Books to Read By the Fireplace (Autumn-Winter 2024)

Why not read a book by a Dutch or Flemish author to cosy up this cold and dark end-of-year period? Here you will find a selection of books that have recently been translated into English, most of them with support from the Dutch Foundation for Literature or Flanders Literature. You will find more translated literature in this database.

FICTION

Antiboy

Author: Valentijn Hoogenkamp
Translator: Michele Hutchison
Publisher: Seagull Books
Original title: Antiboy (De Bezige Bij, 2022)

Pathologies

Author: Jacob Israël de Haan
Translator: Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
Publisher: Seagull Books
Original title: Pathologieën (Meindert Boogaerdt, 1908)

The Hairdresser’s Son

Author: Gerbrand Bakker
Translator: David Colmer
Publisher: Scribe
Original title: De kapperszoon (Cossee, 2022)

Read our review of Gerbrand Bakker’s bestseller The Twin

I Will Live

Author: Lale Gül
Translator: Kristen Gehrman
Publisher:  Little, Brown Book
Original title: Ik ga leven (Prometheus, 2021)

Pen-and-Inklings

Author: Anne Frank
Translator: Sam Garrett
Publisher: Rubinstein
Original title: Pennekinderen (Rubinstein, 2024)

Read this article on Anne Frank as a vulnerable universal symbol

My Name Is Sita

Author: Bea Vianen
Translator: Kristen Gehrman
Publisher: Sandorf Passage
Original title: Sarnami, hai (Querido, 1969)

Thistle

Author: Nadia de Vries
Translator: Sarah Timmer Harvey
Publisher: The New Menard Press
Original title: De bakvis (Pluim, 2022)

Read our review

CHILDREN'S & YOUTH LITERATURE

The Curse of Madame Petrova

Author: Marjolijn Hof
Illustrator: Annette Fienieg
Translator: Bill Nagelkerke
Publisher: Levine Querido
Original title: De kaarten van madame Petrova (Querido Kinderboek, 2022)

The Thousand Flowers of Dior

Author & Illustrator: Annemarie van Haeringen
Publisher: Leopold
Original title: De duizend bloemen van Dior (Leopold, 2024)

I Want a Lion!

Author & Translator: Annemarie van der Eem
Illustrator: Mark Janssen
Publisher: Tra Publishing
Original title: Ik wil een leeuw! (Lemniscaat, 2017)

Movies Showing Nowhere

Author: Yorick Goldewijk
Illustrator: Yvonne Lacet
Translator: Laura Watkinson
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Original title: Films die nergens draaien (Ploegsma, 2021)

Hard Copy

Author: Fien Veldman
Translator: Hester Velmans
Publisher: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury
Original title: Xerox (Atlas Contact, 2023)

Read our review HERE

NONFICTION

The Boundless River

Author: Mathijs Deen
Translator: Jane Hedley-Prole & Jonathan Reeder
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Original title: De grenzeloze rivier (Thomas Rap, 2021)

Read an excerpt of Mathijs Deen’s novella The Lightship

On Ladies and Handbags

Author & Illustrator: Mylo Freeman
Translator: Mylo Freeman
Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
Original title: Over dames en tassen (Rubinstein, 2020)

Moresnet

Author: Philip Dröge
Publisher: Unieboek | Het Spectrum
Original title: Moresnet (Unieboek | Het Spectrum, 2016)

Read our article on the geographical curiosity Neutral Moresnet

The Housefly Effect

Author: Eva van den Broek & Tim den Heijer
Translator: Anna Asbury & Laura Vroomen
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Original title: De bromvliegmethode (Unieboek | Het Spectrum, 2023)

Nobody Lives Here

Author: Lex Lesgever
Translator: Jozef van der Voort & Babette Lichtenstein
Publisher: The History Press
Original title: Nooit verleden tijd (De Boekerij, 2011)

Mafiopoli

Author: Sanne de Boer
Translator: Eileen J. Stevens
Publisher: Monoray
Original title: Mafiopoli (Nieuw Amsterdam, 2020)

The Avant-Gardists

Author: Sjeng Scheijen
Translator: Brent Annable
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Original title: De avant-gardisten (Prometheus, 2019)

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