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15 Apr
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Boekenweek 2022: a love letter to Dutch literature

  • April 15, 2022
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Boekenweek, the "Book Week," is an annual festival in the Netherlands and Belgium celebrating literature in Dutch. The 87th edition, running from April 9 to 18 this year, is themed "First loves." Read...

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25 Mar
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Pierre Jarawan and translator Elisabeth Lauffer at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival

  • April 15, 2022
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The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival 2022 hosted a fascinating conversation between German author Pierre Jarawan and his translator, Elisabeth Lauffer. They discuss their respect...

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25 Feb
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The Land of Short Sentences Virtual Launch Event on March 5

  • February 25, 2022
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On March 5, join the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Scandinavia House for a Nordic Literature in Translation event with this year’s American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize winner ...

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11 Feb
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Hunter Simpson Awarded 2021 Leif and Injer Sjöberg Prize

  • February 11, 2022
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The American-Scandinavian Foundation chose to award Hunter Simpson the Leif and Injer Sjöberg Prize for his fantastic work on Danish author Stine Pilgaard's novel The Land of Short Sentences. The jury...

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09 Feb
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New Year Selected as a Finalist for the 2022 PEN Translation Prize

  • April 6, 2022
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The PEN Translation Prize is an annual award for book-length prose translations from any language into English. Awarded annually since 1963, the award confers a $3,000 prize to the translator of the w...

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09 Feb
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Robben and Dieudonné shortlisted for Society of Authors prizes

  • April 6, 2022
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The Society of Authors awards a prize every two or three years to outstanding translations from works in several languages, including Dutch and French. This year, two World Editions titles have been s...

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19 Mar
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Coming Soon: THE HIGH-RISE DIVER – meet author Julia von Lucadou

  • March 19, 2020
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Meet Julia von Lucadou, author of the forthcoming dystopian novel The High-Rise Diver. In the video below, watch Julia speak about her inspiration for the book, the personal experience that led her to...

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19 Mar
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Meet Adeline Dieudonné (virtually!)

  • March 19, 2020
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Even though in-person events are being cancelled, you can still meet author Adeline Dieudonné (Real Life, Feb 2020) online and order her book! While you may not be able to go out into the world, Wo...

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21 Feb
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Real Life Book Launch – Ink@84

  • February 21, 2020
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Thursday, Feburary 27th Ink@84, 84 Highbury Park, London N5 2XE 6:30-8pm   Join us for the UK Launch of Adeline Dieudonné's Real Life, translated by Roland Glasser, at Ink@84 book sho...

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31 Jan
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Rodaan Al Galidi, Annelies Verbeke and Pierre Jarawan at Writers Series

  • February 5, 2020
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  Writers Series Friday, 21 February 2020 20:30 - 22:00 Studio B - Central Library, Spui 68, 1st floor, The Hague.   The Netherlands, Flanders and Germany through the eyes ...

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