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Where the Wild Things Grow

Explore our connections with ecology, rituals, the cosmos, and the pressing climate challenges of our time

Pesce piatto

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

Głos Suliny

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Marta Talacha
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 minutes read

Pez plano

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Daniela Martín Hidalgo
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

Não quero ser um cão

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
7 minutes read

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

Árvore Monstro Menino Árvore

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Matias Gomes
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 minutes read

Ponto de fuga

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Pedro Viegas
Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
9 minutes read

Bokoplavutarica

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Ne želim da budem pas

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Bojana Budimir
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
7 minutes read

Monsterboom Boomjongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

De stem van Sulina

Een lyrische roman over de geboorte van een moeder, zwervende zielen en de ziel van het zwerven, geschreven met de stuwende kracht van een wereldrivier. Terwijl een donkere schaduw over de weerkaarten van Midden-Europa glijdt, reist een vrouw in een busje langs de oevers van de Donau, van de bron in het Zwarte Woud tot de monding in de Zwarte Zee. Welke stemmen stijgen op uit de rivier? Archeologische opgravingen en eeuwenoude verhalen, confronterende vragen en dromen, lichamelijke transformaties en vergeten vrouwen geven richting aan de mentale reis van een jonge schrijfster die moeder wordt.
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Elogiul uraganului

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Ik was het nooit, Maar ben het nu wel. Gevoelig voor elke Weersverandering.

Translated from Serbian to Dutch by Pavle Trkulja
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
11 minutes read

Sve sveri Poljske

Translated from Spanish to Serbian by Ljubica Trošić
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
7 minutes read

Nebyla jsem, ale už jsem. Citlivá na každou změnu počasí.

Translated from Serbian to Czech by Markéta Chlebovská
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 minutes read

Hvalnica orkanu

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Katja Petrovec
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 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

Nočem biti pes

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
7 minutes read

Wszystkie zwierzęta polne

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
7 minutes read

Calcan

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Alexa Stoicescu
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read
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