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interviewsJanuary 28, 2020April 7, 2020

Where Should They Throw Us? An Interview with Rodaan Al Galidi

Iraqi-Dutch novelist speaks to us about writing the asylum process, language and the value of humour.

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archiveFebruary 20, 2014

Imagining the past – a few notes on the art of the historical novel

Otto de Kat writes for PEN Atlas about the risks and benefits of using history in the novel, a device that when used badly can lead to over-writing and when used well serves the novelist like a butler

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archiveMay 2, 2013

What’s authentic about global literature?

Michele Hutchison investigates what the future might hold for the 21st Century novel: provincial literature with a global reach, or the literature of the cosmopolitan flâneur?

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archiveMay 2, 2013

What's authentic about global literature?

Michele Hutchison investigates what the future might hold for the 21st Century novel: provincial literature with a global reach, or the literature of the cosmopolitan flâneur?

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archiveMarch 28, 2013

PEN Atlas Q&A – Gerbrand Bakker, author of The Detour

PEN Atlas Editor, Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Gerbrand Bakker about his novel, The Detour, Wales, and translating Emily Dickinson

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archiveMarch 28, 2013

PEN Atlas Q&A – Gerbrand Bakker, author of The Detour

PEN Atlas Editor, Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Gerbrand Bakker about his novel, The Detour, Wales, and translating Emily Dickinson

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archiveFebruary 21, 2013

Ghentish Talent – Graphic Novels from Flanders

Michele Hutchison takes us on a far-ranging tour of the European comics scene, with a focus on the beautiful, moving and innovative graphic novels coming out of Belgium

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archiveJanuary 3, 2013

High Impact from the Low Countries

​We begin PEN Atlas in 2013 with Michele Hutchison, who reports on the ‘High Impact’ tour that will bring Dutch authors to the UK later this month

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archiveNovember 15, 2012

Walking the Tightrope: Globalisation and Localism

Michele Hutchison explores the globalisation debate for PEN Atlas, whether authors consciously write for an international market and what that means for authenticity

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archiveSeptember 13, 2012

Entertainment for the Middle Classes? – The success of Herman Koch

Over a million copies sold, multiple translations, adapted for the stage – does Herman Koch’s ​The Dinner ​show a new way for Dutch literature? Michele Hutchison investigates for PEN Atlas

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archiveJune 14, 2012

How international is poetry?

When the projection fails during the Finnish poet Olli Heikkonen’s reading and the slides with parallel Dutch and English translations disappear from the stage, poetry suddenly doesn’t seem that international anymore.

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UncategorizedApril 26, 2012

Great Flemish Voices: Louis Paul Boon and Beyond

In this week’s PEN Atlas despatch editor and translator Michele Hutchinson introduces some of the greatest Flemish writers…

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