CELA About Talents News Calendar Contact Reading Room

Facebook Instagram Newsletter LinkedIn
View all filters Where the Wild Things Grow Clear

Where the Wild Things Grow

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

Óda na hurikán

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 minutes read

Дні як дивні симптоми

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Leonieke Baerwaldt
8 minutes read

Temelj

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
8 minutes read

Socavones

Grondwerk (2025) [«Socavones»] explora temas como el cambio climático, la acción colectiva y el intento de conseguir un mundo habitable mediante un lenguaje poético y sensorial. La protagonista, una rata topo desnuda, es enviada en una misión desde su colonia, en el Cuerno de África, a Bruselas. Mientras espera unas órdenes que no acaban de llegar, se empieza a interesar por las peculiaridades del Homo sapiens y comienza a cavar túneles en las entrañas de la capital europea. A medida que los agujeros se expanden por toda la ciudad, socavando la infraestructura política del corazón de Europa, una amistad entablada con una activista climática florece de una manera inesperada. Grondwerk fue recibida positivamente tanto por la prensa belga como por la neerlandesa y, en 2026, recibió el premio literario Boon Literatuurprijs a la mejor obra de ficción y de no ficción.
Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
10 minutes read

No quiero ser un perro

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Daniela Martín Hidalgo
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Platvis

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

N-am fost, dar acum sunt. Sensibilă la fiecare schimbare a vremii

Translated from Serbian to Romanian by Virginia Popovic
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
9 minutes read

Árvore Monstro Menino Árvore

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

Sve sveri Poljske

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

Where the Wild Things Grow

Read more about this theme
Written in by
0 minutes read

Nunca lo estuve, pero ahora estoy. Susceptible a cualquier cambio del tiempo.

Translated from Serbian to Spanish by Ivana Palibrk
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
10 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

Albero mostro bambino albero

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Valeria Parlato
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
9 minutes read

Punto di fuga

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Antonio De Sortis
Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
8 minutes read

Všechna polní i lesní zvěř

Translated from Spanish to Czech by Martina Kutková
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
6 minutes read

Голос Суліни

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

Ґрунтова робота

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
7 minutes read

Pesce piatto

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

Ja nie chcę być psem

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
6 minutes read
Loading...