Meet the World: Rodaan Al Galidi & Jonathan Reeder

Tomorrow, June 10, New Dutch Writing presents the final event in our online series with World Editions author Rodaan Al Galidi. Please note this event is at 2 pm EST.

As part of Meet The World, we’re teaming up with the National Centre for Writing for a series of conversations between writers and their translators. Exploring the  most exciting new books of 2020, it shines a light on the new Dutch and Flemish masters of fiction and poetry.

Rodaan Al Galidi’s novel Two Blankets, Three Sheets offers a bleakly humorous account of the Dutch Asylum process. A big, existential novel about freedom and belonging, by a former Iraqi asylum seeker now settled in the Netherlands. Joining Rodaan will be translator Jonathan Reeder and chair Rosie Goldsmith.

You can find out more about the the New Dutch Writing programme here: https://www.newdutchwriting.co.uk/

TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT VISIT: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/meet-the-world/

Rodaan al Galidi is a poet and novelist, who has lived in the Netherlands since 1998, and who, as an undocumented asylum seeker taught himself to read and write Dutch. His novel De autist en de postduif (‘The Autist and the Carrier Pigeon’) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. Two Blankets, Three Sheets is his first novel translated into English.

Jonathan Reeder is a literary translator and professional musician. He translates opera libretti and essays on classical music alongside a wide range of Dutch authors, including Peter Buwalda and Christine Otten. His recent translation of Rivers by Martin Michael Driessen won the 2016 ECI Literature Prize.

Rosie Goldsmith worked as a BBC broadcaster for 20 years across arts and foreign affairs, on programmes including Crossing Continents and Front Row. She programmes and presents events at festivals across the UK, is Chair of Judges for the EBRD International Literature Prize and founder and director of the European Literature Network.

Tomorrow, June 10, New Dutch Writing presents the final event in our online series with World Editions author Rodaan Al Galidi.

As part of Meet The World, we’re teaming up with the National Centre for Writing for a series of conversations between writers and their translators. Exploring the  most exciting new books of 2020, it shines a light on the new Dutch and Flemish masters of fiction and poetry.

Rodaan Al Galidi’s novel Two Blankets, Three Sheets offers a bleakly humorous account of the Dutch Asylum process. A big, existential novel about freedom and belonging, by a former Iraqi asylum seeker now settled in the Netherlands. Joining Rodaan will be translator Jonathan Reeder and chair Rosie Goldsmith.

You can find out more about the the New Dutch Writing programme here: https://www.newdutchwriting.co.uk/

TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT VISIT: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/meet-the-world/

Rodaan al Galidi is a poet and novelist, who has lived in the Netherlands since 1998, and who, as an undocumented asylum seeker taught himself to read and write Dutch. His novel De autist en de postduif (‘The Autist and the Carrier Pigeon’) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. Two Blankets, Three Sheets is his first novel translated into English.

Jonathan Reeder is a literary translator and professional musician. He translates opera libretti and essays on classical music alongside a wide range of Dutch authors, including Peter Buwalda and Christine Otten. His recent translation of Rivers by Martin Michael Driessen won the 2016 ECI Literature Prize.

Rosie Goldsmith worked as a BBC broadcaster for 20 years across arts and foreign affairs, on programmes including Crossing Continents and Front Row. She programmes and presents events at festivals across the UK, is Chair of Judges for the EBRD International Literature Prize and founder and director of the European Literature Network.