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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

Eu não era, mas agora sou. Sensível a qualquer mudança do tempo.

Translated from Serbian to Portugese by Ilija Stevanovski
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
9 minutes read

Głos Suliny

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

Ik wil geen hond zijn

Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
8 minutes read

Sve sveri Poljske

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

Pes být nechci

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Alma Mathijsen
6 minutes read

Płastuga

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

Non voglio essere un cane

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

Platvis

Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
8 minutes read

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Голос Суліни

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

Bestias todas del campo

Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
9 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

Alle dieren van het veld

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
9 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

Óda na hurikán

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

Árbol monstruo niño árbol

Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

La voce di Sulina

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Matilde Soliani
Written in Dutch by Anneleen Van Offel
7 minutes read

Ja nie chcę być psem

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