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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

Pez plano

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

Дні як дивні симптоми

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

Árvore Monstro Menino Árvore

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

Bestias todas del campo

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
9 minutes read

Non voglio essere un cane

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Olga Amagliani
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Temelji

Translated from Dutch to Serbian by Jana Živkić
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
8 minutes read

Гласът на Сулина

Translated from Dutch to Bulgarian by Elissaveta Manolova Maciel
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
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

Elogio dell’uragano

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Sulinin glas

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Lucija Janc Novak
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
6 minutes read

Bokoplavutarica

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

Ґрунтова робота

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

Свята

Життя вдови-шинкарки Алоїзії перевертається з ніг на голову, коли її доньці Крісті являється в лісі Діва Марія. І хоча крім Крісти її більше ніхто не бачив, звістка про об’явлення швидко розходиться між людей і до всіма забутого краю починають стікатися натовпи паломників. Шинок, який не вилазив з боргів, нарешті процвітає. Місцеві Крісту водночас і боготворять, і ненавидять. Сама Алоїзія не знає, на чий бік пристати. Її донька брехуха чи провидиця? Чи справді в лісі явилася Матір Божа, чи щось набагато страшніше? Ця історія про любов, віру та безмежну волю заснована на реальних подіях, які відбулися в дев’ятнадцятому столітті в околицях чеського Броумова.
Translated from Czech to Ukrainian by Olha-Anastasiia Futoran
Written in Czech by Sára Zeithammerová
9 minutes read

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Platýs

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Ik wil geen hond zijn

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

La voz de Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Pablo Martín Sánchez
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
8 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

Pesce piatto

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

Linguado

Translated from Dutch to Portugese by Lut Caenen
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read
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