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Roy Edwards

Translations by Roy Edwards

Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company [Buy Direct]

by Multatuli
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Max Havelaar

In 1860, the novel Max Havelaar by Multatuli, pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), gave voice to Holland’s uneasy conscience about its colonial enterprise in the East Indies. The book shocked the nation, (more...)

Girdle of Emerald (1953)

by Johan Fabricius
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Gordel van smaragd

The Great Ordeal (1950)

by Johan Fabricius
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: De grote beproeving

The Great Ordeal (1950)

by John Wigmore Fabricius
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: De grote beproeving

Mortal Pageant. A Romance of the Year of the Great Plague in Florence (1954)

by Johan Fabricius
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Toernooi met de dood

Setuwo the Tiger (1956)

by Johan Fabricius
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Setoewo de tijger

The Dark Room of Damokles (1958)

by Willem Frederik Hermans
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: De donkere kamer van Damocles

This novel is one of the undisputed masterpieces to have emerged from the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It is a tour de force of taut, suspenseful story-telling, (more...)

Weekend Pilgrimage (1957)

by Tip Marugg
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Weekendpelgrimage

Weekend Pilgrimage is the first of three impressively individual novels by the reclusive Tip Marugg, whose life on Curaçao, in the words of one (rare) interviewer, revolves mainly around ‘drink, writing and dogs’. (more...)

Bitter Herbs: A Little Chronicle (1959)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Het bittere kruid

Bitter Herbs: A Little Chronicle (1957)

by Marga Minco
Translated by Roy Edwards
Original title: Het bittere kruid: een kleine kroniek

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