What Id Rather Not Think About: shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

About Jente Posthuma

Jente Posthumas critically acclaimed first novel Mensen zonder uitstraling (People Without Charisma) was published in 2016 and nominated for the Dioraphte Literatour Prize the Hebban Debut Prize and the ANV Debut Prize. Her second novel What Id Rather Not Think About published in 2020 was equally well received and was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021. Sarah Timmer Harvey is a translator and writer based in Woodstock New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Southern Cross University. Sarahs translation of Jente Posthumas What Id Rather Not Think About was published by Scribe in 2023; Reconstruction their translation of stories written by the Dutch-Surinamese writer Karin Amatmoekrim was published by Strangers Press in 2020 and their translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries is forthcoming from The New Menard Press. Born in Australia she lived and worked in the Netherlands for 14 years before moving to New York City in 2013.