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TOM LANOYE is an award-winning, highly acclaimed Belgian novelist, poet, and playwright. Starting out as a poet and critic, he became famous for his prose and drama, as well as his politically and socially engaged columns and his unique cabaret-style performances. He is the author of more than 50 works of poetry, drama and fiction. His bestseller Speechless, voted one of the most popular ‘new classics’ in Belgian and Dutch literature, sold over 150,000 copies and was awarded several major awards. In 2017, Speechless was adapted into a film by Hilde Van Miegham. Lanoye has won many literary prizes, including the prestigious Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire oeuvre. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. Tom Lanoye lives in Antwerp and Cape Town.

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.