Babelguides: Dutch and Flemish Literature

Dutch and Flemish Literature

The Islands (1952) [Buy Direct]

by A. Alberts
Translated by Hans Koning
Original title: De eilanden

In the 1930s, Alberts (1911-1998) served as a colonial civil servant in the Netherlands East Indies and then spent the war in a Japanese concentration camp. He later made a career in the Netherlands as a novelist, historian and translator. (more...)

The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy [Buy Direct]

Translated by Richard Huijing
(Anthology)

Thirty authors are featured in this anthology, spanning almost a century, from 1895 to 1990. The pieces range from novella length (and one extract from a novel) to short stories a couple of pages long. Authors appear alphabetically, so that styles and periods are jumbled together; there are, however, (more...)

New Worlds from the Lowlands. Fantasy and Science Fiction of Dutch and Flemish Writers (Ed. Marcel Van Loggem) [Buy Direct]

Translated by Wanda Boeke et al.
(Anthology)

From Berlin (1983) [Buy Direct]

by Armando
Translated by Susan Massotty
Original title: Krijgsgewoel; Machthebbers: verslagen uit Berlijn en Toscane

Armando is one of those artists who are fascinated by the thin line where fiction and reality meet. Years ago he brought out a book written jointly with Hans Sleutelaar and called ‘The SS Men’ (De SS-ers, 1967). (more...)

Wedding by the Sea (1996) [Buy Direct]

by Abdelkader Benali
Translated by Susan Massotty
Original title: Bruiloft aan zee

This is a Moroccan tale by an author who, like Hafid Bouazza, hails from North Africa but has been living in the Netherlands for most of his life and writes in Dutch. The story line is relatively straightforward, if a trifle bizarre. (more...)

Character (1938) [Buy Direct]

by Ferdinand Bordewijk
Translated by E.M. Prince
Original title: Karakter

Character: A Novel of Father and Son (1938) [Buy Direct]

by Ferdinand Bordewijk
Translated by E.M. Prince
Original title: Karakter

Faded Portraits (1960) [Buy Direct]

by E. Breton De Nijs
Translated by Donald and Elsje Sturtevant
Original title: Vergeelde portretten. Uit een Indisch familiealbum

Breton de Nijs was the literary pseudonym of Rob Nieuwenhuys (1908-99), the grand old man of Dutch colonial literature. Under his own name he published widely in a career spanning almost half a century. (more...)

Sunken Red (1981) [Buy Direct]

by Jeroen Brouwers
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Bezonken rood

Sunken Red is the second volume of Brouwers’ trilogy on his country of origin, the former Dutch East Indies colony (present-day Indonesia). The first-person narrator is identified as the author Jeroen Brouwers, (more...)

The Swordfish (1989) [Buy Direct]

by Hugo Claus
Translated by Ruth Levitt
Original title: De zwaardvis

This is a short but tense novel. It is a murder story; everything happens within a couple of days in the vicinity of one small Flemish town. There are only half a dozen characters. It is far less complicated than the author’s monumental masterpiece The Sorrow of Belgium, (more...)

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