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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

Ach, meiden (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
8 minutes read

De verloochende

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

Als de dieren

In Als de dieren onderzoekt een vrouw wat haar is overkomen na de geboorte van haar eerste kind – een ervaring zo donker dat ze zich tegen taal en betekenis verzet. In het dierenrijk, in oude mythes, in foto’s, e-mails en zelfs boodschappenlijstjes uit haar kraamtijd, zoekt de vrouw naar houvast. Hoe word je, lang nadat je je kind op de wereld hebt gezet, alsnog moeder? En hoe verenig je opnieuw de brokstukken van een mens, nadat die uit elkaar is gevallen?
Written in Dutch by Lieselot Mariën
9 minutes read

Ik wil geen hond zijn

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Thuis in het ijs

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Lies Doms
Written in Spanish by Montserrat Sánchez
9 minutes read

Monsterboom Boomjongen

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

Zwaar water

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Marieke Haenebalcke
Written in Slovenian by Pia Prezelj
10 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

Ortensio

Translated from Italian to Dutch by Lies Lavrijsen
Written in Italian by Maurizio Amendola
4 minutes read

Het gaat over

Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
8 minutes read

We hebben altijd in dit dorp gewoond

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Aixa De la Cruz Regúlez
5 minutes read

De exodus van de lammetjes

Translated from Romanian to Dutch by Charlotte van Rooden
Written in Romanian by Irina Georgescu Groza
13 minutes read

Ik deel de lucht met de vogels

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Staša Pavlović
Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič
9 minutes read

De Heggen

Translated from Polish to Dutch by Małgosia Briefjes
Written in Polish by Maria Karpińska
12 minutes read

Er is nog land voorbij de Perekop

Translated from Ukrainian to Dutch by Roman Nesterenco
Written in Ukrainian by Anastasia Levkova
12 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

Het portret

Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

De denkbeeldige werelden van Edgar Kaos

Translated from Slovenian to Dutch by Marieke Haenebalcke
Written in Slovenian by Julija Lukovnjak
12 minutes read

Automobiel uit het oude Griekenland

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
11 minutes read

Het vonnis

Translated from Polish to Dutch by Małgosia Briefjes
Written in Polish by Ishbel Szatrawska
9 minutes read
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