Afterlight wins the EUregio Literature Prize for Scholars. Or the even nicer-sounding Prix littéraire des Lycéens de l’Euregio. Or the

The French translation of Afterlight (Schemerleven) by translator Guillaume Deneufbourg has won the Prix Gallmeister des Lecteurs 2025! This is

You have me to love, Jaap Robben’s debut novel, was published in 2014. Birk received rave reviews, won awards, was

The filmadaptation of Robben’s awarded novel Zomervacht (Summerbrother) will have it’s première at the Nederlands Film Festival 2023 in Utrecht.

Schemerleven has just been awarded with the Confituur Bookseller Award 2023. Every year the Flemish Independent Booksellers association chooses their

“Phenomenal.” —Het Financieele Dagblad “Heartbreaking.” —De Standaard “Once again, Robben shows himself to be a master of concise, restrained sentences

Today Singel Uitgeverijen announced that the translation rights of Schemerleven of five languages have been sold. The German translation (Kontour

In October Jaap Robben will visit the UK for a short booktour. 12 oktober Flanders House – London (Together with

Biography Of A Fly has been shortlisted for the Dutch Jan Wolkersprijs. The Jan Wolkersprijs is a literary award for

Elizabeth Strout, much admired by Jaap, expressed her enthusiasm for Zomervacht. Yann Ruyters wrote this column in Trouw in response

‘Summer brother is an impressive novel: a deceptively simple story of lives at the margin, with a child’s viewpoint perfectly

The British newspapers The Observer and The Guardian published a very nice review about Summer Brother, the English translation of

Amazing news! Summer Brother is selected for the longlist of the International Booker Prize 2021! It feels like someone surprised

Recently the English translation of Zomervacht was published in the United States and Canada. Immediately after its appearance, Summer Brother

On March 29th Jaap will appear in the online event of the British Library at the launch of the Dutch

Almost everyone did something during the lockdown months that they didn’t get around to before. Jaap translated the picture book

The 18-part series Po Polska appeared in Trouw newspaper, where Jaap wrote about the ‘silencemen’ a.k.a. the four Polish handymen

In the summer of 2020 Jaap investigated ‘the border’. At the request of the Erfgoedfestival and the Grenslandmuseum in Dinxperloo

Jaap was a guest for the third time during the German literature festival Literarischer Sommer in Neuss. He will be