Oct 2, 2013 | Catalonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Wales, World
Tags: Catalonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Wales, WorldSchwob, an initiative to publicize largely untranslated modern classics, cult books and must-reads from all over the world, recently launched its English website: en.schwob-books.eu. The site is part...
Jun 5, 2013 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsThis year’s biennial Brockway Prize for translators of poetry from Dutch has gone to Judith Wilkinson. Awarded by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, the prize of €5000 will be presented on 14 June 2013, during the 44th Poetry International...
Mar 5, 2013 | Europe, Netherlands
Tags: Europe, NetherlandsThe European Union announced today that a subsidy of €200,000, the maximum, has been granted to the Schwob.nl project to enable it to expand into an international network, a European portal for the best unknown books of world literature. The...
Dec 12, 2012 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsThe Dutch Foundation for Literature’s 2012 Translation Prizes have been awarded to David Colmer (translator Dutch-English), Mark Leenhouts (translator Chinese-Dutch and journalist) and Mark Wildschut (translator of German philosophical work). The...
Feb 7, 2012 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsThe Dutch Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds is awarding the 2012 Martinus Nijhoff Prize to translator and author Frans Denissen. He receives the 35,000 Euro prize for his translations of Italian literature into Dutch. Denissen published his first literary...
