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Articles by David Colmer
Operation Product
Indonesia rarely makes the headlines. It is the least understood of the world’s most populous countries and the largest majority Muslim country, its population of 280 million exceeded only by those of the US, India and China; it is the world’s fourteenth largest country by area and its economy is the fifth largest in Asia. It has been known to Europeans since 1512 and gained independence from the Netherlands 75 years ago. Its citizens span hundreds of ethnic groups and languages.
BEAR'S LOST GLASSES
by Leo Timmers ; illustrated by Leo Timmers ; translated by David Colmer ‧ A humorous, delightful tale about finding wonderful new ways to see the world. Where are Bear’s glasses? Bear “can’t see a thing without them!” Young listeners will notice that the bright red glasses are atop Bear’s head and will eagerly cry out to let Bear know. But our hapless friend decides that the glasses are at Giraffe’s house and trots over.
TRANSLATOR'S PICK - David Colmer’s Choice: Manon Uphoff and Basuki Gunawan
literature Every month, a translator from Dutch to English gives literary tips by answering two questions: which translated book by a Flemish or Dutch author should everyone read? And, which book absolutely deserves an English translation? To get publishers excited, an excerpt has already been translated. This time you will read the choice of David Colmer, who has won many awards, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Brockway Award.
Nachoem M. Wijnberg
By Nachoem M. Wijnberg Translated By David Colmer In poems selected from 20 collections and translated by David Colmer, the Dutch poet Nachoem M.
Second Man
I once heard the poet Terrance Hayes respond to some variation of the familiar question about his relationship to formal poetry by saying, “If it has no form, it casts no shadow.” I took that to mean that every poem, regardless of whether it’s written in a received form like a sonnet or a villanelle, has some form; it’s how the text receives the world’s heat and casts a shape inside which one can find another weather.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Tom Glenn has worked as an undercover agent, a musician, a linguist (seven languages), a cryptologist, a government executive, a caregiver for the dying, and, always, a writer. Many of his prize-winning stories came from the 13 years he shuttled between the U.S. and Vietnam on covert signals intelligence assignments before escaping under fire when Saigon fell.
Washington Independent Review of Books
By Willem Frederik Hermans; translated by David Colmer Archipelago 250 pp. Reviewed by Tom Glenn December 8, 2021 The German invasion of Holland forms the background of a man’s struggle to find himself. A Guardian Angel Recalls is the only book I’ve ever read that’s told from the point of view of an angel looking after its “ward.” The protagonist — 38-year-old Bert Alberegt, a public prosecutor living in the Netherlands as Hitler’s Germany begins its invasion of the country — is that ward.
A GUARDIAN ANGEL RECALLS
by Amor Towles ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 5, 2021 Newly released from a work farm in 1950s Kansas, where he served 18 months for involuntary manslaughter, 18-year-old Emmett Watson hits the road with his little brother, Billy, following the death of their father and the foreclosure of their Nebraska farm. They leave to escape angry townspeople who believe Emmett got off easy, having caused the fatal fall of a taunting local boy by punching him in the nose.
Signed Bookplate Edition - Happy Stories, Mostly - Norman Erikson Pasaribu; Tiffany Tsao;
Foyles Notes Signed Bookplate Edition, signed by both author and translator Synopsis Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of ‘decreation’, and often drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, these tales put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by hetero characters.
LITTLE FOX | Kirkus Reviews
The NBA star offers a poem that encourages curiosity, integrity, compassion, courage, and self-forgiveness. James makes his debut as a children’s author with a motivational poem touting life habits that children should strive for.
What Translating a Firsthand Account of Life in Auschwitz Taught Me About the Language of Suffering
Seventy-five years ago, on a cold winter’s day — Jan. 27, 1945 — the Dutch Jewish doctor and trainee psychiatrist Eddy de Wind saw Russian troops in white camouflage suits stroll up the road “as if no Germans existed” and enter Auschwitz concentration camp. Soon after, he and other newly liberated prisoners were taking turns to dance on a large portrait of Hitler they had dragged out of an office. “I don’t remember what I felt,” De Wind wrote later.
LAST STOP AUSCHWITZ
A survivor of the Holocaust chronicles his horrific experiences in the “barbed-wire hell” of Auschwitz. A Dutch physician, de Wind was transported to Auschwitz in 1943 and was alive when the Red Army arrived in 1945. He stayed at the camp, working as a doctor for the other survivors and writing this book. It was published in the Netherlands in 1946 but nowhere else, so this is its first appearance in English.
I'LL ROOT FOR YOU
Lighthearted poems extol sport and human achievement—and the importance of losing. Originally published in the Netherlands in 2013, van de Vendel’s 17 offbeat inspirational poems are handily translated into rhymed English verse by Australian children’s writer Colmer and accompanied by German illustrator Erlbruch’s expressively detailed digital renderings of familiar animals engaged in various human sports.
Buyer's Corner: 2018 Review/Preview
Man! Is this year flying by or what? Here we are at the end of August already, and it seems like just yesterday that we were letting y’all know about all we had coming up in 2018.
Longlists Announced for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards - PEN America
This is the first year that PEN is releasing the longlisted titles of its book awards while also celebrating the many distinugished awards judges who nominated them. This year, with the help of its partners and supporters, PEN will confer 18 distinct awards, fellowships, grants, and prizes, and confer nearly $150,000 to some of the most gifted writers and translators working today. Be sure to check back with PEN.org on June 17, when the shortlists will be announced.
A DOG LIKE SAM by Edward van de Vendel , Philip Hopman , David Colmer
A Canadian family’s emotional life is enriched by the affections of a shaggy white dog. Nine-year-old Kix and his younger sister, Emilia, are delighted by the unexpected appearance of a Great Pyrenees who quickly adopts them as his family. While the children unreservedly embrace their new pet, naming him Sam, their parents are more cautious, as it emerges that he belongs to the violent son of the curmudgeonly old couple across the road.
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