This is a list of selected clients & projects in 2006 and 2007. For samples of my translation work, please contact me.
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Art, Architecture, Design, and Culture |
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Wall texts and labels for numerous exhibitions, including:
- Van Gogh’s Drawings: New Insights
- Max Beckmann in Amsterdam
- Japanese Season
- Fierce Friends (with Beverley Jackson)
Prinsenhof Museum, Delft (with Beverley Jackson and others)
- The Temptation of Flora, catalogue and museum booklet
Netherlands Architecture Institute
- Six classic Dutch articles on theoretical issues in architecture and urban planning, to be included in a collection of highlights from the journal Oase.
Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
- Annual reports for 2005 and 2006
- Scholarly articles, such as “The Russian Past of Loef Vredericx”
- The foundation’s website, devoted to the life and work of the Dutch portraitist and world traveller Lily Eversdijk Smulders.
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History, politics, and government |
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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- English translation of In dienst van het Koninkrijk by David Bos, to be published in 2008 by Brill, funded by NWO.
This historical work (circa 500 pages in the Dutch edition) describes the evolution of the Reformed ministry in the 19th-century Netherlands. Written with exceptional wit and style, it was shortlisted for the Eureka! Non-Fiction Award. The book includes numerous passages from 19th-century memoirs, novels, and poetry—a fascinating translation challenge.
Jewish Historical Museum (with Beverley Jackson)
- Wall texts and labels for permanent exhibition: The History of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1900 to the Present
- Museum guidebook
- Various texts for the Hollandsche Schouwburg.
- Biographies and other texts for the Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands (with Beverley Jackson)
The Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam (with Beverley Jackson)
- Istanbul: The City and the Sultan, catalogue, wall texts, and labels (with Beverley Jackson)
National Museum of Antiquities
- Wall texts and labels for Brilliant Bijoux and Beneath the Sands of Time (with Beverley Jackson)
- At the invitation of this well-known quality publishing house, I translated a section of a forthcoming book by the political commentator Paul Scheffer on immigration and ethnic tensions in modern Western societies.
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Language and literature |
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Sebes & Van Gelderen (with other translators)
- 50 Nudes (to be published in a bilingual edition in 2007)
For the leading literary agency Sebes & Van Gelderen, I translated about two-thirds of this collection, which combines nude paintings, drawings, and photographs with stories, essays, and poems by renowned authors. The writers whose work I translated include Adriaan van Dis, Maarten ‘t Hart, Gerrit Komrij, Tessa de Loo, Cees Nooteboom, Marcel Möring, and Joost Zwagerman.
Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature (NLPVF)
- Short story by Stephan Enter (with Susan Massotty)
This semi-governmental organization promotes Dutch literature abroad and often mediates between publishing houses and individual translators. In 2007, the NLPVF added my name to its list of approved translators of Dutch poetry and literary prose, after a stringent peer review process. With the award-winning literary translator Susan Massotty, I translated a short story from Spel (Game), a critically acclaimed collection by Stephan Enter.
Poems for My Father’s Notebook
- Dutch poems by P. N. van Eyck and J. C. Bloem
In November 2007, Susan Massotty was awarded the prestigious Vondel Prize for My Father’s Notebook
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