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

Streszczenie

Translated from Italian to Polish by Mateusz Kłodecki

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi

4 minutes read

24

Translated from Serbian to Italian by Sara Latorre

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

9 minutes read

Poslové příštích dní

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

4 minutes read

S pticami si delim nebo

Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič

8 minutes read

Ne želim da budem pas

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen

7 minutes read

Com as aves, partilho o céu

Translated from Slovenian to Portugese by Barbara Jursic

Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič

9 minutes read

S pticama delim nebo

Translated from Slovenian to Serbian by Jelena Dedeić

Written in Slovenian by Agata Tomažič

8 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Italian by Lucia Gaja Scuteri

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

11 minutes read

17, 18

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

8 minutes read

Nu vreau să fiu un câine

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen

8 minutes read

Chiar și dacă n-apuci să vezi decât o picătură

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Cătălina Oșlobanu

Written in Dutch by Rebekka de Wit

9 minutes read

O vranících a démonech

Translated from Slovenian to Czech by Kateřina Honsová

Written in Slovenian by Mirt Komel

4 minutes read

Natalya

Translated from Portugese to Spanish by Lara Carrión

Written in Portugese by Valério Romão

5 minutes read

24

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović

8 minutes read

Ptiči, ki čivkajo o prihodnosti

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano

4 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Romanian by Paula Braga Šimenc

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

10 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

Toate lifturile duc la parter (Apă de privit)

Translated from Bulgarian to Romanian by Maria Andrei

Written in Bulgarian by Gergana Galabova

9 minutes read

Very Important Person

Translated from Slovenian to Portugese by Barbara Jursic

Written in Slovenian by Andraž Rožman

10 minutes read