david mckay

David McKay, a literary translator based in The Hague, is best known for translating Stefan Hertmans's novels, including The Ascent. He has been shortlisted for various translation prizes and won the Vondel Prize for Hertmans’s Bold Ventures, War and Turpentine. Other recent publications include Charlotte van den Broeck’s described in the New York Times as “a small marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies.”

He is a co-translator of Astrid Roemer’s Off White