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Product details
- ISBN 9781917126076
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1966 at the age of 19 Astrid Roemer emigrated from Suriname to the Netherlands. She identifies herself as a cosmopolitan writer. Exploring themes of race gender family and identity her poetic unconventional prose stands in the tradition of authors such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. She was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize in 2016 and the three-yearly Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren) in 2021. Lucy Scott is a translator of Caribbean literature written in Dutch and French. Her short story and essay translations thus far have appeared in Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review and in Wilderness House Literary Review. She's the translator of Astrid Roemer's On a Woman's Madness (Two Lines Press 2022) and Off-White (Two Lines Press forthcoming 2024).
