by Reinier Salverda
On Wednesday 13 March 2019 the weekly UCL Dutch Translation Seminar was dedicated to Multatuli’s great novel of 1860 on the Dutch colonial era: Max Havelaar or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company [ISBN: 978-1-68137-262-4]. The book wasn’t out yet in the UK, yet – thanks to its publisher, the New York Review of Books, and to Waterstone’s Gower Street Bookshop – we received the necessary advance copies in time before the Seminar, and well before the bulk of the books is due to arrive, Brexit permitting, in the UK in April/May. Continue reading “A Triple First and more: the new English translation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar (13 March 2019)”