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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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