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Raoul de Jong

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  • 2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Chantal Spitz |Jean Anderson |Raoul de Jong |Preti Taneja

    Reading to Coexist: A Conversation with Itamar Vieira Junior To me, the text doesn’t resolve itself even when I write the final sentence. Translated from Portuguese by the author

  • 2 months ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Dinçer Güçyeter |Igiaba Scego |Raoul de Jong

    In the fiction and nonfiction gathered here, members of diaspora communities in Europe navigate multiple languages, cultures, and sets of societal expectations. Dinçer Güçyeter’s kindergartner does his best to support his Turkish guest-worker parents in Germany; Igiaba Scego’s narrator describes how her Somali family has remained close despite the distances—and languages—dividing them; and Raoul de Jong considers his Surinamese father’s immigrant experience in the Netherlands.

  • May 22, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Raoul de Jong |Judith Kiros |Lauren Goldenberg |Alexander Aguayo

    Dear Jaguar Man,The Spanish were the first strange men to appear on your jaguar coast, in search of the mythical golden city, El Dorado. It was on April 23, 1594, that one of them hammered a cross into the ground and declared: “In the name of God I claim this land for His Majesty Don Felipe, our lawful overlord!” Those strange visitors would never find El Dorado. But they also wouldn’t leave your country in peace.

  • May 22, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Raoul de Jong

    Raoul de Jong has published six novels. His latest book, Jaguarman (2020), was nominated for the Libris Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature. In 2023, de Jong wrote the Boekenweekessay (“Book Week Essay”), the most prestigious literary honor in the Netherlands. He was the first Black writer in this 89-year-old tradition to be asked to do so, and his essay “Boto Banja” (2023), became a #1 bestseller.

  • May 2, 2024 | nrc.nl | Raoul de Jong

    Toen ik 12 was, zat ik huilend in een auto op de parkeerplaats van de Gamma in Schiedam. Terwijl mijn moeder door de stromende regen naar de winkel rende voor materiaal voor een van haar onbegrijpelijke timmerprojectjes, schreef ik in mijn dagboek: „Het is voorbij. De laatste dag van mijn lagere school is voorbij. Voorbij is een periode.

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