They've announced that Oorlog en terpentijn, by Stefan Hertmans, has won this year's AKO Literatuuurprijs -- one of the leading (and, at €50,000, most remunerative) Dutch literary prizes; the book was also shortlisted for another one of the big ones, the Libris Literatuur Prijs, earlier this year.
See also the foreign rights information page at De Bezige Bij -- and note that foreign rights have already been widely snapped up, including into English -- Knopf will be publishing this in the US, and Harvill Secker in the US; as to whether they'll keep the suggested English title as 'War and Turpentine' .....
See also the foreign rights information page at De Bezige Bij -- and note that foreign rights have already been widely snapped up, including into English -- Knopf will be publishing this in the US, and Harvill Secker in the US; as to whether they'll keep the suggested English title as 'War and Turpentine' .....