Welcome to my website. I’m David McKay, and Open Book Translation is my Dutch-to-English translation business specializing in three broad areas:

My clients include major museums, scholars, government bodies, literary agencies, and publishing houses. I have been certified as a Dutch-to-English translator by the American Translators Association (ATA), and I belong to the Dutch translators’ organization (NGTV), Sense, and ALTA. The NLPVF, a Dutch semi-governmental organization, has approved me as a literary translator from Dutch into English.

If you’re interested in my services, or have any questions, please contact me.

In November 2007, Susan Massotty was awarded the prestigious Vondel Prize for My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah. The Vondel Prize is awarded once every two years for the best literary translation from Dutch into English. My translations of two Dutch poems were used in this English edition. You can read a dual-language version of one of those translations here.