Jun 6, 2011 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsThe Brockway Prize, a two-yearly prize for translators of Dutch poetry, is being awarded to Spanish translator Francisco Carrasquer Launed. The prize (5.000 euro) is an initiative of the Nederlands Letterenfonds (Dutch Foundation for Literature), and...
Apr 28, 2011 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsThe Dutch Foundation for Literature has just launched a new website. Schwob.nl will focus on important world literature that hasn’t yet been translated into Dutch. In this way, Schwob.nl hopes to draw attention and enthusiasm from readers and editors...
Dec 21, 2010 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsOn 10 December in Utrecht, three translators were awarded the 2010 Prize of the Dutch Literary Foundation, for the quality of their literary work and their merit as ‘cultural mediators’: Hans Driessen (b. 1953), translator of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche...
Dec 7, 2010 | Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsThe twelfth edition of the Dutch literary translation days will take place in Utrecht on 10 and 11 December 2010. This year’s special topic is the translation of poetry. For more information, please refer to the website of the Amsterdam...
