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Best Listened to Culture Press Podcast: No more hypes, but beautiful books (on publishing, and why small is fine)

When the longlist of the Man Booker International Prize was announced on 12 March this year, two things stood out. First, of course, that our own Tommy Wieringa had won a spot on this list of fiction translated into English. Even more striking was that 11 of the 13 titles had been published by small, independent publishers.
This trend from big to small is also happening in the Netherlands. Perhaps it forms part of the answer to the question of what in the book...

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Linda Huijsmans

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When the longlist of the Man Booker International Prize was announced on 12 March this year, two things stood out. First, of course, that our own Tommy Wieringa had won a spot on this list of fiction translated into English. Even more striking was that 11 of the 13 titles had been published by small, independent publishers.
This trend from big to small is also happening in the Netherlands. Perhaps it forms part of the answer to the question of what in the book...

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