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16 Dutch Books You Need To Read This Autumn (2020)
Why not read a book by a Dutch or Flemish author? Here you will find a selection of works recently translated into English, with the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature or Flanders Literature. You’ll find more books in this database.
FICTION
![Java Java](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/java.jpg)
![Treeandvine Treeandvine](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/treeandvine.jpg)
The Interpreter from Java
Author: Alfred Birney
Translator: David Doherty
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Original title: De tolk van Java (De Geus, 2016)
Read our review HERE.
The Tree and the Vine
Author: Dola de Jonge
Translator: Kirsten Gehrman
Publisher: Transit Books
Original title: En de akkers is de wereld (Querido, 1946)
POETRY
![Menno wigman Menno wigman](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/menno-wigman.jpg)
![Species Species](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/species.jpg)
The world by evening. Selected poems
Author: Menno Wigman
Translator: Judith Wilkinson
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Original title: (Prometheus, 2004, 2012, 2016)
Read our profile on Menno Wigman HERE.
Putting On My Species
Author: Sasja Janssen
Translator: Michele Hutchison
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Original title: Ik trek mijn species aan (Querido, 2004)
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
![Blue wings Blue wings](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/blue-wings.jpeg)
![Sand Sand](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/sand.jpg)
![Daddy Daddy](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/daddy.jpg)
The Blue Wings
Author/illustrator: Jef Aerts/Martijn van der Linden
Translator: Laura Watkinson
Publisher: Levine Querido
Original title: De blauwe vleugels (Querido, 2018)
Leave a Message in the Sand
Author/illustrator: Bibi Dumon Tak/Annemarie van Haeringen
Translator: Laura Watkinson
Publisher: Grand Rapids
Original title: Laat een boodschap achter in het zand (Querido, 2018)
This is My Daddy
Author/illustrator: Mies van Hout
Publisher: Pajama Press
Original title: Dit is mijn papa! (Gottmer, 2019)
![Edward van de vendel Edward van de vendel](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/edward-van-de-vendel.jpeg)
![Victor Victor](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/victor.jpeg)
Little Fox
Author/illustrator: Edward van de Vendel/Marije Tolman
Translator: David Colmer
Publisher: Levine Querido
Original title: Vosje (Querido, 2018)
Victor
Author/illustrator: Jacques & Lise
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Original title: Viktor (Van Halewyck, 2018)
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
![Songs Songs](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/songs.jpeg)
![City of belgium City of belgium](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/city-of-belgium.jpg)
Songs of Silence
Author: Noel Ummels
Translator: Bill Campbell
Publisher: Rosarium Publishing
Original title: Songs of Silence (UN of Comics, 2017)
The City of Belgium
Author: Brecht Evens
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Original title: Het amusement (Exhibitions International, 2018)
NONFICTION
![Beethoven Beethoven](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/beethoven.jpg)
![The number bias The number bias](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/the-number-bias.jpg)
![Venice2 Venice2](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/venice2.jpg)
Beethoven. A Biography
Author: Jan Caeyers
Translator: Brent Annable
Publisher: University of California Press
Original title: Beethoven. Een biografie (De Bezige Bij, 2014)
The Number Bias
Author: Sanne Blauw
Translator: Suzanne Heukensfeldt
Publisher: Sceptre
Original title: Het bestverkochte boek ooit (met deze titel) (De Correspondent, 2014)
Venice. The Lion, the City and the Water
Author: Cees Nooteboom
Translator: Laura Watkinson
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Original title: Venetië (De Bezige Bij, 2018)
Read our profile on Cees Nooteboom HERE.
![Autumntide Autumntide](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/autumntide.jpg)
![Demons Demons](https://the-low-countries.com/uploads/_detail900/demons.jpg)
Autumntide of the Middle Ages
Author: Johan Huizinga
Translator: Diane Webb
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Original title: Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (Tjeenk Willink, 1919)
Read our review HERE.
The Demons of Leonard Cohen
Author: Francis Mus
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Original title: De demonen van Leonard Cohen (Lannoo, 2015)
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