Zo lijp dit. VVD is overal (en de PvdD wordt genegeerd).

Yes, but it was a bit rude to get her name wrong. It might have been autocorrect on Facebook, where I typed it.

How we translate - in conversation with David Colmer and David McKay - The Society of Authors Grab a cuppa and get to know translators David Colmer and David McKay. David and David will be in conversation with Jane Davis to discuss their work and career and to offer a glimpse into their creati...

This Thursday afternoon, David McKay and I will be discussing our translation of David Van Reybrouck's REVOLUSI with writer and translator Jane Davis in a free online event:
societyofauthors.org/event/how-we...

Oh, I see it now. A typo!

No! We have a Jane too

On WWB, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp shares new translated #WorldKidLit—keep reading for a thread of all her picks, sure to keep kids and teens reading all summer. buff.ly/CJvMHDO

April 1, 2025 Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.

“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”

According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.

Vriendelijke herinnering dat zonder vertalers van Nederlandse literatuur, internationaal succes van Nederlandse auteurs onmogelijk zou zijn. Zonder vertalers die met passie en toewijding voor een hongerloon werken, geen Europese literatuur.

Gefeliciteerd met de nominatie, @michehut.bsky.social!

February 28, 2025 Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.

February 28, 2025

#Poetry #HBReviewoftheWeek FAST CHEETAH, SLOW TORTOISE by Bette Westera; illus. by Mies van Hout; trans. by @davidcolmer.bsky.social (@ebyrbooks.bsky.social): "The combination of bold, dynamic art and lively first-person poems makes this a great choice to read aloud" www.hbook.com/story/review...

Now in summer! www.letterenfonds.nl/ontdek/liter...

Is That a Familiar Feeling? - Words Without Borders In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the un...

"If translation is a relationship, I’d rather be single. What if translation were a person? If it were, then it would be male, it would most definitely be avoidant. Is that a familiar feeling?" wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... #RosalindHarvey @wwborders.bsky.social #literature #translation

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

flashback to the first English publication of poems from I WISH by Toon Tellegen and Ingrid Godon, Elsewhere Editions, 2020, mailchi.mp/mptmagazine/...

'When you enter Gaza, you are God': Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes | Opinion ***

Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis

IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.

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👇Proud to be Irish.

DELTRANS meeting @vertalershuis #translatorfashion

Here we are: DELTRANS. Dutch-to-English translators getting together to discuss the sudden drop-off in work, the uses and misuses of AI, editing and publicity. Thanks to the Amsterdam Vertalershuis for hosting us. @davidcolmer.bsky.social (anyone else on bsky yet?)

emailed it

Some people liked my note for Radna Fabias's fabulous HABITUS, if you'd like to read that

In het verlengde van mijn column: de gedachte dat 'iedereen met een paspoort' volwaardig Nederlander is, kan ook naar de prullenbak. Bente Becker (VVD) is aan het radicaliseren en maakt iedereen verdacht op basis van genen. Doodeng.

Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI

Nice to see this recognition for translators.

Of course, Jon Fosse himself is also a translator – he translated The Plains by Gerald Murnane.

(Fosse also married his Slovakian translator.)

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Ramsey Nasr: DE MACCABI HOOLIGANS & HET ANTISEMITISME IN NEDERLAND YouTube video by HadiH

Former Dutch poet laureate Ramsey Nasr on recent events in Amsterdam www.youtube.com/watch?v=n43K...

#Poetry translators are the unsung heroes of literature.
An overview of Flemish poets selected by @michehut.bsky.social and translated by herself and @davidcolmer.bsky.social, Donald Gardner, Judith Wilkinson, David McKay and @garr.bsky.social.

thehighwindowpress.com/2024/08/24/flemish-poetry/

I was really delighted to get the chance. It was on my list for a long time

I forgot all about this... Damn, Hermans is good!

Nice piece! Didn't know that about "Oh my days!" (which my daughter's partner says all the time)

Collega Lotte Bosch is jarig! Dus we trakteren. Op Athenaeum.nl: 10% op alle buitenlandse boeken, met de kortingscode JARIG. Zoals op de Engelse titels in haar favorietenlijstje. Ze licht ze toe, van Scrumple en Quicksand tot Breakwater en All Fours.
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‘The Hairdresser’s Son’ by Gerbrand Bakker (Review) I first became aware of Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker's work back in 2013 when I read his novel The Detour, which went on to win the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize that year.  Since then, I've tried...

Fancy a trim? I know a bloke... Gerbrand Bakker's 'The Hairdresser's Son', translated by David Colmer, courtesy of Scribe Publications :)

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Egan Garr’s Choice: Radna Fabias and Simone Atangana Bekono American-born queer poet and translator Egan Garr stirs up enthusiasm for two poets who showed an original voice in Dutch literature in recent years.

www.the-low-countries.com/article/egan...