Translation copyright © Paul Vincent, 2016.
‘Buitenlandse dienst’ (‘Foreign Service’) copyright © Frans Kellendonk, 1983. First published in Namen en gezichten by Querido. Reprinted with the permission of Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep.
Translation copyright © David McKay, 2016.
‘De onbeweeglijke’ (‘The Motionless Man’) copyright © Oek de Jong, 1975. First published in De hemelvaart van Massimo by J.M. Meulenhoff. New and revised edition: De onbeweeglijke by Atlas Contact, 2002.
Translation copyright © Laura Watkinson, 2016.
‘Tinctuur’ (‘Tincture’) copyright © Thomas Rosenboom, 2006. First published in Hoog aan de wind by Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij.
Translation copyright © David McKay, 2016.
‘Het Byzantijnse kruis’ (‘The Byzantine Cross’) copyright © A. F. Th. van der Heijden. First published in Gentse lente by Querido, 2008. Reprinted with the permission of De Bezige Bij.
Translation copyright © Paul Vincent, 2016.
‘De dag van Zonnegloren’ (‘Sunrise Day’) copyright © Margriet de Moor, 1988. First published in Op de rug gezien by Contact. Reprinted with the permission of De Bezige Bij.
Translation copyright © Laura Watkinson, 2016.
‘Zuidland’ (‘The Southern Continent’) copyright © P. F. Thomése, 1991. First published in Zuidland by Querido. Reprinted with the permission of Atlas Contact.
Translation copyright © Donald Gardner, 2016.
‘East Bergholt’ copyright © Marcel Möring, 2013. First published in Optima in 1992; first book publication: East Bergholt, De Bezige Bij, 2013.
Translation copyright © Liz Waters, 2016. Extract from Poetry of Hadewijch by Hadewijch, translation copyright © Marieke J. E. H. T. van Baest, 1998, publication copyright © Peeters Leuven, 1998.
‘Poep’ (‘Poop’) copyright © Manon Uphoff, 1995. First published in Begeerte by Balans. Reprinted with the permission of De Bezige Bij.
Translation copyright © Sam Garrett, 2016.
‘Winnie en de onschuld’ (‘Winnie and the Innocence of the World’) copyright © Joost Zwagerman, 1998. First published in Playboy, 1990. First book publication: Het jongensmeisje, De Arbeiderspers, 1998.
Translation copyright © Hester Velmans, 2016.
‘Spookstad’ (‘Ghost Town’) copyright © Hafid Bouazza, 2002. First published in De voeten van Abdullah by Prometheus.
Translation copyright © Ina Rilke, 2000.
‘Iemand anders’ (‘Someone Else’) copyright © Arnon Grunberg, 2005. First published in Magazijn; first book publication: Iemand anders, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2007.
Translation copyright © Sam Garrett, 2016
‘Indian Time’ copyright © Sanneke van Hassel, 2012. First published in Ezels by De Bezige Bij.
Translation copyright © Liz Waters, 2016.
‘Een kamer voor mezelf’ (‘A Room of My Own’) © Joost de Vries, 2014. First published in Vechtmemoires by Prometheus.
Translation copyright © David Colmer, 2016.
Every effort has been made to contact Richard Huijing, translator of ‘Funeral Rights’ and ‘Feathered Friends’.
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