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BERT WAGENDORP (1956) is a columnist for the national newspaper De Volkskrant. His novel Ventoux was proclaimed Book of the Month by a leading Dutch booksellers panel and received unanimous rave reviews from the press, selling 100,000 copies within the first six months. The book has been adapted into a Dutch-language film of the same name. Wagendorp previously wrote the collection of stories De Dubbele Schaar (‘The Double Scissors’) and the novella De Proloog (‘The Prologue’).

PAUL VINCENT (UK) studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over twenty years became a full-time translator in 1989. Since then he has published a wide variety of translated poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, including work by Achterberg, Claus, Couperus, Elsschot, Jellema, Mulisch, De Moor, and Van den Brink. He is a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden, and has won the Reid Prize for poetry translation, the Vondel Prize for Dutch-English translation, and (jointly) the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.