Published here exclusively in English, the Dutch writer responds to the controversy over their decision to resign as Amanda Gorman’s translator
Never lost that resistance, that primal jostling with sorrow and joy,
or given in to pulpit preaching, to the Word that says what is
right or wrong, never been too lazy to stand up, to face
up to all the bullies and fight pigeonholing with your fists
raised, against those riots of not-knowing inside your head,
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Translated by Michele Hutchinson. The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated by Hutchinson (Faber), won the 2020 International Booker prize.
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