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LATEST NEWS
JEAN REIDY ADAPTED BY BART MOEYAERT
The first picture book that illustrator Leo Timmers made together with author Jean Reidy for Bloomsbury USA was All Through My Town. Querido’s Publishers (Amsterdam) published the Dutch edition, translated by Bart Moeyaert. The book was awarded the acclaimed Zilveren Griffel (Silver Pencil) in 2014.
Now the second picture book by Timmers and Reidy is coming up: Busy Builders, Busy Week! will be published in July 2016. There’s already an early review in Publishers Weekly: “Timmers’s acrylic paintings present big-eyed, cheerful animals busy on the job using realistic looking tools and trucks. The brown of the dirt lot and fence (which gets a makeover, too) contrast with increasing splashes of color—the animals themselves, as well as the whimsical playground fixtures. The result is a joyful cacophony of color and activity.”
The Dutch edition (Querido’s Publishers) will be out in June 2016, translated by Bart Moeyaert.

LATEST NEWS
BART MOEYAERT APPOINTED ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FBM16
In 2014 Bart Moeyaert was appointed artistic director of Guest of Honour Flanders & The Netherlands at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016. It was known for some time that the Board of Directors of the Flemish Literature Fund and the Supervisory Board of the Dutch Foundation for Literature would take responsibility for organizing the programme, but the entire book industry was eagerly anticipating the appointment of the project’s artistic director.
“In choosing Bart Moeyaert the two foundations are clearly opting for an enterprising author who is held in high regard by his colleagues, by the public and by the media, in both Flanders and the Netherlands. Moeyaert is an internationally renowned author with an extensive network in many foreign countries and translations in twenty-one languages. Nineteen of Moeyaert’s books have been published in German translation, most of them by Hanser Verlag. He has a strong relationship with the German language area, where he regularly holds workshops and appears on stage at festivals. He has been attending the Frankfurt Book Fair for twenty-five years and knows it from the inside out.”
Bart Moeyaert has been developing the concept for this large project, mapping the Dutch-speaking regions from a literary and cultural point of view, and is currently working together with a very strong team. He adds a chapter to his blog every Friday, so you can read all about his work and plans for FBM16.