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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

Ode aan de orkaan

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Płastuga

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Todos os bichos do campo

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Bestie voi tutte dei campi

Translated from Spanish to Italian by Ilaria Garelli
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Toate fiarele de pe câmp

Translated from Spanish to Romanian by Silvia Alexandra Ștefan
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
8 minutes read

Ne želim da budem pas

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

Тихо!

Translated from Dutch to Ukrainian by Larysa Dobra
Written in Dutch by Marjolein Visser
8 minutes read

Elogio do Furacão

Translated from Spanish to Portugese by Miguel Martins
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Elogio Del Huracán

Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
4 minutes read

Pochwała huraganu

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Morellón Mariano
3 minutes read

Obra subterránea

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 Irene de la Torre
Written in Dutch by Tijl Nuyts
1 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

Elogiul uraganului

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

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

Ja nisam bila, ali sada jesam. Osetljiva na svaku promenu vremena.

Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
8 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

Na ledu svojih ljudi

Translated from Spanish to Slovenian by Mojca Petaros
Written in Spanish by Montserrat Sánchez
7 minutes read

Голос Суліни

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

Ponto de fuga

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