Classics

War and Turpentine: The making of ‘a future classic’

Classics

"Oorlog en terpentijn" by Stefan Hertmans stands out as one of the few novels from Flanders to have achieved widespread circulation and success in the…

Neel Doff: transnational femme de lettres

Classics

Neel Doff became a successful writer in French-speaking Belgium and France. In addition, she translated some important authors: Multatuli, Felix…

Max Havelaar and The Discovery of Heaven in Czech

Classics

The novels Max Havelaar (1861) by Multatuli (ps. of Eduard Douwes Dekker, 1820-1887) and De Ontdekking van de Hemel (The Discovery of Heaven) by Harry…

Translation and the Literary Canon

Canon

Some of the most translated Dutch writers into Romanian were not necessarily the “Big Three”, but rather names that would less likely come to mind…

Hugo Claus in Slovakia

Canon

How was the author of the Sorrow of Belgium represented in Slovakia and Slovak translation?

Európa Publishing house

Canon

The Tulipán series and the most publications from Dutch into Slovak.

Multatuli in France

Literature and Society

Multatuli's Max Havelaar, the most import work of the 19th. century, became a weapon in the political struggle of his translators and reviewers.