For many readers in the United States, the literature of the Caribbean is a familiar one: Take Marlon James, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz, for starters.
Timmer Harvey’s translation of Dutch writer Jenthe Posthuma’s ‘What I’d Rather Not Think About’ is shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
On July 16, the European Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding’ with Tunisia, granting the country millions of euros to prevent migrants and refugees from crossing the Mediterranean to seek shelter in Europe. But why did the Dutch prime minister play a pioneering role in the conclusion of the Tunisia deal, if only a small proportion of the migrants along this route travel on to the Netherlands? This analysis examines how the Dutch anti-migration policy became self-evident.
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A high-impact literary cabaret of Dutch readings, discussion, live drawing and music.
This is an online event hosted by Unique Media. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
Several Dutch writers have won acclaim in the UK – Herman Koch and Geert Mak among them – but many new writers are ready to burst onto your bookshelves, inspired by the success of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Gender, post-colonialism, racism, Europe and COVID-19 are hot topics not just in the UK but in the Netherlands too. Marking the launch of
The Dutch national archives are showcasing a unique set of letters sent by the leader of the first organised slave revolt on the American continent to a colonial governor, in which the newly free man proposed to share the land. The offer from the man known as Cuffy, from Kofi – meaning “born on Friday” – is said to provide a new insight into attempts to resist the brutal regimes of the colonial period, often overlooked in histories of enslaved.