Dimitri Verhulst made his debut in 1999 with 'De kamer hiernaast/The Room Next Door' (Contact), a volume of short stories. His use of language is direct and he possesses a strong sense of humor, albeit a highly cynical one. Survivalist humor.
David Colmer was born in Adelaide in 1960. Since moving to Amsterdam in the early 1990s, he has published a wide range of translations of Dutch literature. He is also a published author of fiction. Colmer has won many awards for his translations, most notably the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, both with novelist Gerbrand Bakker. In 2009 he was awarded the biennial NSW Premier’s Translation Prize for his body of work.