De Bezige Bij

De Bezige Bij - The Busy Bee - is one of the most distinguished literary publishing houses of The Netherlands.

The history goes back to World War II, when the house was part of the resistance, publishing and distributing poetry and novels. After the war the house continued as a writer’s cooperative and was named The Busy Bee, after the resistance nickname of its founder.

In the decades that followed one of the best and most prestigious literary lists was built, where the very best of Dutch, Flemish and international literature is published: Hugo Claus, Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch, Cees Nooteboom but also Samuel Beckett, J.L. Borges, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, T.S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Jerzy Kosinski, Malcolm Lowry, Vladimir Nabokov, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, J.D. Salinger, Jean Paul Sartre and Virginia Woolf.

This impressive backlist is still there, but today is accompanied by Philip Roth, Esther Freud, Graham Swift, Susan Sontag, A.M. Homes, Anne Michaels, John Irving, Donna Tartt, Janet Fitch, Karen Armstrong, Mark Z. Danielewski, Moses Isegawa, Siri Hustvedt, Karin Slaughter, Alice Sebold, Gil Courtemanche, Aravind Adiga, Anne Enright, Elizabeth Gilbert, Alessandro Baricco, Philippe Claudel, Peter Carey, Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Etienne van Heerden, Khaled Hosseini, Imre Kertész, György Konrád, Hanif Kureishi, Daniel Mason, Catherine Millet, Amos Oz, Toni Morrison, W.G. Sebald and many more, and of course many great Dutch novelists like Harry Mulisch, Hugo Claus, Willem Frederik Hermans, Gerard Reve, Cees Nooteboom, Margriet de Moor, A.F.Th. van der Heijden, Leon de Winter, Jessica Durlacher, Erwin Mortier, Kees van Beijnum, Jan Siebelink, Paul Scheffer, Tommy Wieringa and poets like Remco Campert and Gerrit Komrij.

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