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FICTION The greatest classic in Flemish literature The Sorrow of Belgium HUGO CLAUS The monumental novel ‘The Sorrow of Belgium’ is set in the late 1930s and World War II. It focuses on the young Louis Seynaeve, who tries to escape from a Flemish petit-bourgeois environment in which morality is bent to suit self-interest and in which the father has no qualms about working for the Germans as a printer. One of the landmark European novels of AUTHOR the post-war era J.M. COETZEE This Bildungsroman is also a social document about political and social misfortune in Flanders before, during, and after World War II. In particular, it is a look from within at the man-in-the-street in wartime and at the circumstances that gave rise to collaboration. Louis avoids the lure of fascism through his innate anarchism and ORIGINAL TITLE Het verdriet van intellectual insight; in this, he is a typical Claus protagonist. België (1983, De Bezige Bij, 773 pp. Latest edition: 2018) The novel has continued to be a bestseller for many years and has PRIZES Flemish State Prize for Narrative been translated into numerous languages. Prose, Flemish Reader Prize, Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer, Premio Nonino This is the Great Belgian Novel RIGHTS SOLD English (The Overlook Press), French (Seuil), German (Klett-Cotta), THE TIMES Spanish (Debolsillo), Italian (Feltrinelli), Finnish (Otava), Norwegian (Gyldendal), Danish (Rosinante), Swedish (Bonniers), Additional translated editions next to the ones listed in the column on the Hungarian (L'Harmattan), Polish (PIW), right: English (Viking / Pantheon Books / Penguin Books), French Simplified Chinese (Yilin), Portuguese (Asa), (Julliard), German (Volk und Welt / Deutscher Taschenbuch), Bulgarian (PIC), Croatian (Fraktura), Spanish (Alfaguara), Slovenian (Beletrina), Albanian (Aleph Klub). Romanian (Univers), Russian (Russiko), Complex Chinese (Huangguan Wenhua Chuban Youxian Gongsi), Serbian (Heliks), Ukrainian (Tempora), Serbo-Croatian (Prometej), Amharic (Hohe), Greek (Kastaniotis), Afrikaans (Protea) TRANSLATION RIGHTS Marijke Nagtegaal - [email protected] TRANSLATION GRANTS Marieke Roels - [email protected] , Elise Vanoosthuyse - [email protected].

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