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Never Completely Dutch: Flemish Writers in the Land of Freedom

By Tomas Vanheste, translated by Anna Asbury
18 October 2022 14 min. reading time Newcomers to the North

Flemish Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country. ‘Everything is viewed as a management issue.’

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Tomas Vanheste

journalist and deputy editor-in-chief Ons Erfdeel vzw

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