Other Publications
Short Prose

We Had to Remove This Post (excerpt)
Hanna Bervoets
Granta, 2022
On the first day of training, a series of text-only posts appeared on our screens, and then, from day three, photos, videos, and livestreams. Each time, the question was: Is it okay to leave this up on the platform? And if not, why not?

Staying Isolde
Nina Polak
Asymptote, October 2020
‘The lobster is the martyr of our ethical primitivism,’ he tells me as he carefully scrubs mushrooms for his famous Quiche Borraine, ‘both our inability to empathise with other life forms and our stubborn tendency towards infidelity.’ I’m not sure if he knows that he’s really talking about my stubborn tendency towards infidelity (which, technically speaking, isn’t infidelity: we have clear agreements on the subject).

No Petting
Nina Polak
Hinterland Magazine, 24 August 2020
‘Never fall in love with a taken man,’ that German teacher slurred into my ear at a school dance (her lips black from the red wine, her eyes tired). I took her inappropriate advice to heart: I fell in love with a taken woman. A tigress, who prides herself on the fact that she is both wild and chained. Insufferable. Irresistible. A force of nature.

Ball Lightning
Rudolph Herzog
Literary Hub, October 2019
“Why are you drinking so much?” the daughter wants to know.
“Because the ghosts are back.”
“There are no ghosts.”
“Then call it the past.”

Blog posts
from Simone Atangana Bekono’s residency at the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague
The Chronicles, October 2019
In the restaurant where we went on to have dinner, I counted the opportunities for escape: via the patio out back and then over the low wall, or I could excuse myself to go to the restroom and slip out through the entrance. Nothing gives you peace of mind like having an escape plan.

Apostle of Jack, Arthur, John and Paul
Auke Hulst
Asymptote, January 2018
Many people meditate to attain a certain contemplative, emotional, or even transcendental state, but I’m too restless for that. I can think more clearly (feel more clearly?) if I’m doing something. I think with my hands—writing—and I think with my legs: traveling.

Visiting the Snow Queen
Sophie Strohmeier
Queen Mob's Tea House (part of their Queer Translation feature), October 2016
The heavy conference table with the leather chairs, the desk with the curved claw feet, the green desk lamp, the curtain, the bronze sculpture of a dancing woman. All this was hers. Every day she looked at all of these things, even if only in passing; she touched them often. All these lifeless things spoke to her each day and were brought to life by her presence, and now they spoke to me of her.

Sylvia Weve: The Perfection of Simplicity
for Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
An article by Dutch writer and illustrator Ted van Lieshout about the work of illustrator Sylvia Weve, originally a speech given when she was awarded the Max Velthuijs Prize for children’s book illustration.
Poetry
2 poems by Hans Lodeizen
Astra Magazine, autumn 2022
2 poems by Hilde Domin
Modern Poetry in Translation, autumn 2021
10 poems by Kurt De Boodt
Flanders Literature, October 2021
2 poems by Tom Van de Voorde
ANMLY, spring 2021
6 poems by Hilde Domin
no man's land, winter 2020
2 poems by Tom Van de Voorde
Verseville, December 2020
2 poems by Asha Karami
Versopolis, January 2020
‘The City Where I Was Born Is Vast’ and ‘Sprite Is Weak Coca Cola’
2 poems by Tom Van de Voorde
Action Books blog, May 2020
3 poems by Vicky Francken
Poetry International, May 2020
4 poems by Hilde Domin
New Books in German, April 2018
Samples

Space Traveler
Lukas Rietzschel
dtv, 2021

Desire Lines
Caro Van Thuyne
Koppernik, 2021

Six People in One Bed: The Future of Love
Roanne van Voorst
Podium, 2022

The Light Years
Jens Meijen
Bezige Bij, 2021

A Modern Desire
Hanna Bervoets
Uitgeverij Pluim, 2021

The Pear Song
Joost Oomen
Querido, 2021

I’m Going to Live
Lale Gül
Prometheus, 2021

The History of My Sexuality
Sofie Lakmaker
Das Mag, 2021

Around Four Weeks
Laura van der Haar
Podium, 2020

The Noble Autist
Romana Vrede
De Arbeiderspers, 2020

The Raccoon
Aleksandr Skorobogatov
De Geus, 2020

The Beast with the Strength of Ten Horses
Lida Dijkstra
Luitingh-Sijthoff, 2019

Flin, or the Lost Love of a Unicorn
Henry Lloyd
Querido, 2019

The Shape of Sound
Gregor Verwijmeren, Van Oorschot, 2019
Commissioned for the European First Novel Festival in Budapest, 23-26 April 2020

A Thousand Fathers
Nhung Dam, De Bezige Bij, 2017
Commissioned for the Deltaworkers residency in New Orleans, spring 2020

The Days of Bluegrass Love
Edward van de Vendel
Querido, 2015

Viktor
Judith Fanto
Ambo|Anthos, 2020

The Ting
Artur Dziuk
dtv, 2019

Salt
Marc Reugebrink
Querido, 2019

The Pineapple
Lex Boon
Meulenhoff, 2019

Being Inconspicuous
Dirk Brauns
Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2019

Our Father
Angela Lehner
Hanser, 2019

The Confession
Marianne Philips
Cossee, 2019
