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Where the Wild Things Grow

Explore our connections with ecology, rituals, the cosmos, and the pressing climate challenges of our time

Het eiland

Translated from Polish to Dutch by Charlotte Pothuizen
Written in Polish by Urszula Jabłońska
11 minutes read

Grondwerk

Grondwerk [Groundwork] (2025) explores climate change, collective action and attempts to make the world habitable in poetic and sensory language. In the novel, a naked mole-rat is sent on a mission from her colony in the Horn of Africa to a square in Brussels. Waiting for a briefing that fails to arrive, she observes the curious ways of the homo sapiens and starts digging tunnels in Brussels’ underbelly. As sinkholes grow all over the city – fragmenting the infrastructure of the political heart of Europe – a meeting and growing friendship with a climate activist produces an unexpected twist. Grondwerk was shortlisted for the Boekenbon Literatuurprijs and very positively reviewed in the Belgian and Dutch press.
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
9 minutes read

Ik wil geen hond zijn

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Ode aan de orkaan

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Jericho

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Sandra Verhulst
Written in Italian by Fabrizio Allione
10 minutes read

De verloochende

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Leine Meeus
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
10 minutes read

Dagboek

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Staša Pavlović
Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel
10 minutes read

Ik was het nooit, Maar ben het nu wel. Gevoelig voor elke Weersverandering.

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
11 minutes read

Een engel

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Anna Kalimar
11 minutes read

24

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
10 minutes read

De familie Miralles

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Kike Cherta
9 minutes read

Platvis

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

De stem van Sulina

Een lyrische roman over de geboorte van een moeder, zwervende zielen en de ziel van het zwerven, geschreven met de stuwende kracht van een wereldrivier. Terwijl een donkere schaduw over de weerkaarten van Midden-Europa glijdt, reist een vrouw in een busje langs de oevers van de Donau, van de bron in het Zwarte Woud tot de monding in de Zwarte Zee. Welke stemmen stijgen op uit de rivier? Archeologische opgravingen en eeuwenoude verhalen, confronterende vragen en dromen, lichamelijke transformaties en vergeten vrouwen geven richting aan de mentale reis van een jonge schrijfster die moeder wordt.
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Monsterboom Boomjongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

Geen ogenblik Portasar

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Jan Willem Bos
Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
10 minutes read

Het gaat over

Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
8 minutes read

Alle dieren van het veld

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
9 minutes read
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