Series
literature
literature
Vamba Sherif
4 min reading time
Mira Feticu Declares Her Love to the Dutch Language
Liberian-born writer Vamba Sherif recognises himself in Feticu's book about her difficult conquest of the Dutch language.
literature
Dirk Vandenberghe
6 min reading time
‘Cutthroats’ by Karel De Sadeleer: The Frivolous Story of a Palestinian-Swiss Nomad
In a loud monologue full of metaphors and reflections on life and literature, Karel De Sadeleer tells the story of Ali, a bubbly Swiss with Palestinian roots.
Series
Young Voices on Slavery
literature
Derek Blyth
2 min reading time
The Little Bookshop on the Corner
Whenever Derek Blyth visits Amsterdam, he can't help but pop into the iconic Athenaeum Boekhandel. ‘Buying a book there is almost a religious experience.’
literature
Maarten Dessing
7 min reading time
'The Melting' by Lize Spit: Her Trauma Has No Melting Point
Four years after her victory lap through the Low Countries, Lize Spit will now delight English-language readers with her translated debut novel.
First Book
literature
Fien Leysen
2 min reading time
Fien Leysen: Under Sheets
This week's Friday Verses are written by Fien Leysen. We translated her poem ‘Onder lakens’.
literature
Johan Marc Baeten
1 min reading time
Johan Marc Baeten: Graffiti
This week's Friday Verses are written by Johan Marc Baeten. We translated his poem ‘Graffiti’.
Friday Verses
literature
Myrte Leffring
2 min reading time
Myrte Leffring: Another Day
This week's Friday Verses are written by Myrte Leffring. We translated her poem 'Zo'n dag'.
literature
Jan Geerts
2 min reading time
Jan Geerts: Last Letters
This week's Friday Verses are written by Jan Geerts. We translated his poem ‘Laatste brieven’.
Series
Moving Verses
history
Betül Sefika
1 min reading time
Betül Sefika: Crops
Betül Sefika was inspired for her visual poem by a rice stalk, which is directly descended from rice seeds that were smuggled from Africa to Suriname by an enslaved woman.
history
Shimanto Reza
3 min reading time
Shimanto Reza: Lines
Shimanto Reza wrote a letter inspired by a map of the Bay of Bengal from around 1695.
history
Elsbet De Pauw
2 min reading time
Elsbet De Pauw: a line, a house, a skin
Elsbet De Pauw wrote a poem in response to an old painting of a doll house.
history
Jordi Lammers
2 min reading time
Jordi Lammers: Letter to the spirits
Jordi Lammers wrote a letter from the perspective of a mouth-bow.
history
Annemieke Dannenberg
1 min reading time
Annemieke Dannenberg: Disruptive depot
Annemieke Dannenberg gives a voice to a brush used in eighteenth-century incantations.
history
Esha Guy Hadjadj
3 min reading time
Esha Guy Hadjadj: The unknown drummer
Esha Guy Hadjadj gives a voice to a military painting by Cornelis Troost from 1742.
history
Anne Bosveld
3 min reading time
Anne Bosveld: The sea is the bending of a body raising itself up
Anne Bosveld wrote a prose poem inspired by a panorama of Cape Town.
history
Johannes Decat
2 min reading time
Johannes Decat: What lines cannot tell
Johannes Decat gives a voice to the tally marks in an old cash book for a plantation in Brazil.
history
Emma Wiersma
3 min reading time
Emma Wiersma: OKRA / mother of vinegar
Emma Wiersma wrote a poem referencing the oldest existing collection of plants from Suriname.
literature
Tessa Leuwsha
12 min reading time
Tessa Leuwsha's 'Plantage Wildlust' Translated into English
Students from two British Universities translated an extract from the most recent novel of the Surinamese Dutch writer Tessa Leuwsha.
literature
Dirk Vandenberghe
6 min reading time
‘Raaf’ by Roos Vlogman: Sometimes the Body Wants to Go Its Own Way
A captivating debut about a son who may want to break away from his mother, but gradually understands that this is impossible.
history
Tessel Veneboer
3 min reading time
Tessel Veneboer: A moralist and a philosopher look at a portrait of a revolutionary
Veneboer wrote a dialogue in response to a portrait of Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution.
