In April 2019, Bart Moeyaert was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA). This made him the second Belgian author or illustrator to receive this prestigious prize.
As we can see in the example of Hugo Claus, just because an author’s work had been widely translated does not necessarily indicate that it has been widely read. Claus was only able to break through...
The list of books published by Iperborea ranges from the works of classic writers to the best authors of contemporary literature and from Nobel Prize winners such as Selma Lagerlöf (the first woman to...
The Dutch book “Koning & Koning” by Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland (2000) has been translated into Polish by Sławomir Paszkiet and published as “Król i król” in 2010.
Lilla Piratförlaget is a fairly young publishing house and it was launched in 2011, specializing in children’s and young adult literature focusing on high-quality literature from for instance the...
Although critically acclaimed in the Low Countries, canonized as one of the most beautiful literary works in the Dutch language, and available in German (1964), French (1968), Romanian (1968) and...
The Hungarian children's book publisher Pagony aims to mature the attitude towards youth and children's literature in Hungary. With their thirteen children's bookstores both in the capital Budapest...
In the 1980s, no Austrian publishing house had a publishing program focussed on translations from the Netherlands and Flanders. This only changed with the first translations from Dutch published by...
The books published by Dwie Siostry are often classics of world literature, but they also offer more alternative titles. Many of them are translations of Dutch literature.
In the period between 1993 and 2006, Prometej published roughly 40 books by Dutch and Flemish authors under the book series Dutch and Flemish Literature. Among those publications, there were also...
When 'The Discomfort of the Evening' is portrayed in the media, every review of the book begins with the fact that it won the Booker Prize, as well as the author's transgender identity.
One of the most notable publishers in this category was Vendelín Steinhauser in the city of Plzeň (Pilsen). Steinhauser was notable for avoiding the tendency to focus either on the Czech or on the...
