Robert Dorsman
(Utrecht, 1955) is a translator of South African literature. He translated the works of Etienne van Heerden, Breyten Breytenbach and Antjie Krog. With Adriaan van Dis he compiled O wye en droewe land (Oh, wide and sad country), a collection of 101 poems in Afrikaans.
Past events
The Turning Point
Architect Andries Samuel, documentary maker and BBC reporter Aminatta Forna and building engineer Nihad Sirees decided to turn to fiction at a certain point in their lives. Mathijs Deen wants to know why. In English.