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ANNELIES VERBEKE is a writer of novels, short stories and plays. She made her literary debut in 2003 with the much-lauded novel Slaap! (‘Sleep!’), which sold over 75,000 copies and was published in 22 countries. Verbeke’s books have received numerous awards and nominations: Thirty Days was chosen as best Dutch novel of 2015 by readers of a leading Dutch newspaper, awarded the F. Bordewijk Award and Opzij Literature prize for best novel, and nominated for the ECI Literature Prize. Two years later her short story collection Halleluja was also on the shortlist of the ECI Literature Prize and won the J.M.A. Biesheuvel Prize for the best short story collection of the year. Her work has been compared to that of Katherine Mansfield. She lives in Ghent, Belgium.

After finishing her studies at the University of Manchester, LIZ WATERS (UK) worked for some years with English-language texts and at a literary agency in Amsterdam before becoming a full-time translator of literary fiction and non-fiction. Authors whose books she has translated include Linda Polman, Fik Meijer, Paul Scheffer, Lieve Joris, Jaap Scholten, Luuk van Middelaar, and Douwe Draaisma. Recently published are her translations of A Foolish Virgin by Ida Simons and The Many Lives of Jan Six by Geert Mak.