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KRISTIEN HEMMERECHTS’ extensive output includes more than twenty novels, and numerous collections of short stories and autobiographical essays; a body of work that has frequently been praised by critics and awarded prizes. Never one to shy away from controversy, Hemmerechts is known for her forthright opinions on social issues. She used to teach English Literature at University College Brussels and now teaches Creative Writing at University College Louvain and The Drama School of Antwerp. She has been awarded the Flemish State Prize and the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her oeuvre.

PAUL VINCENT (UK), Honorary Senior Lecturer in Dutch at UCL, has been one of the most renowned translators of Dutch literature for the past twenty years. He was awarded the first David Reid Poetry Translation Prize (2006) for his translation of ‘Herinnering aan Holland’ (‘Memory of Holland’) by Hendrik Marsman and the Vondel Translation Prize 2012 for My Little War by Louis Paul Boon. His recent translations include The Hidden Force by Louis Couperus, While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and (with John Irons) 100 Dutch-Language Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day, joint winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2016.