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Adrienne Dixon

Translations by Adrienne Dixon

Sunken Red (1981) [Buy Direct]

by Jeroen Brouwers
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Bezonken rood

Sunken Red is the second volume of Brouwers’ trilogy on his country of origin, the former Dutch East Indies colony (present-day Indonesia). The first-person narrator is identified as the author Jeroen Brouwers, (more...)

My Territory (1980) [Buy Direct]

by Mark Insingel
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Mijn territorium

Reflections (1968) [Buy Direct]

by Mark Insingel
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Spiegelingen

How meaning is constructed out of language is the abiding interest of all Insingel’s writing, whether in his poetry, his shorter prose pieces or his novels. These novels are generally episodic in nature and merely provide him with a larger keyboard on which to improvise. (more...)

Rituals (1980) [Buy Direct]

by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Rituelen

Despite the fact that his first two novels gained literary awards, Nooteboom was better known as a travel writer until the publication of Rituals in 1980. That gained him not only yet another Dutch literary prize but also the American Pegasus Prize and, through translation, a wider audience. (more...)

Memory and Agony. Dutch Stories from Indonesia (Ed. Rob Nieuwenhuys)

Translated by Adrienne Dixon
(Anthology)

Out of Mind (1984) [Buy Direct]

by J. Bernlef
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Hersenschimmen

A retired Dutch couple, Maarten Klein and his wife Vera, live in Gloucester, a seaside town north of Boston, Massachusetts. We are in the early 1980s, Maarten is seventy-two, the couple have been married for fifty years, and they have been living in the US since 1967. (more...)

Public Secret (1987) [Buy Direct]

by J. Bernlef
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Publiek geheim

A Matter of Life and Death (1954)

by Anna Blaman
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Op leven en dood

During the two decades of her writing life (1941-1960), Anna Blaman was at the cutting edge of literature, renowned for the influence French Existentialism had on her writing and as one of the most sensual writers of her day. (more...)

Minuet (1955) [Buy Direct]

by Louis Paul Boon
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Menuet

After his magnum opus Chapel Road, the Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon continued his experimentation with narrative form. Minuet (1955) is cleverly structured, telling the same story three times over using the three protagonists as narrators. They are a man, (more...)

A Course of Time (1970) [Buy Direct]

by Mark Insingel
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Een tijdsverloop

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