Books

Most of the books I’ve translated or edited over the years have been on fine art or the performing arts. I’ve also collaborated on a variety of books with my colleague Steve Green, including several for the Rijksmuseum and, most recently, a major work on theatre history in the Netherlands, Dutch Mime by Marijn van de Langen.

  • Daria van den Bercken – CD booklets

    Daria van den Bercken – CD booklets

    Human: Nature, an Imaginary Suite (2022)
    Domenico Scarlatti and Daria van den Bercken (2017)
    Keys to Mozart (2015)
    Handel – Suites for Keyboard (2012)
    Translation

    Booklets accompanying CDs by the award-winning Dutch-Russian pianist Daria van den Bercken.

  • New Material Award 2009-2018

    New Material Award 2009-2018

    Gert Staal, Simone de Waart, Maia Kenney
    Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2021
    ISBN 9789083015286
    Translation

    A retrospective of the entries to the New Material Award, a contest which challenged artists, designers and architects to use new materials and innovative techniques to contribute to a more sustainable society. The award was sponsored by Fonds Kwadraat, DOEN Foundation and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

  • Koen Vermeule – Fensterbilder

    Koen Vermeule – Fensterbilder

    Merel Bem, Stefan Kuiper, Renee Schuiten-Kniepstra
    Lecturis, 2021
    ISBN 9789462264014
    Translation

    A retrospective of the past nine years of work by the artist Koen Vermeule, including articles by art journalists and historians Merel Bem, Stefan Kuiper and Renee Schuiten-Kniepstra.

  • Nicole Beutler – Body of Work

    Nicole Beutler – Body of Work

    Janine Dijkmeijer, Daphne Richter, Nicole Beutler, Maaike Bleeker
    2021
    Translation

    A retrospective of 20 years of work by the acclaimed choreographer and visual theatre maker Nicole Beutler, consisting of interviews and texts by the choreographer and her close collaborators.

  • Style is Forbidden: Works by 68 alumni of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie

    Style is Forbidden: Works by 68 alumni of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie

    Frans Oosterhof (Ed.)
    Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2018
    Translation

    A book of work by alumni of the Graphic Design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the internationally renowned school of art of design in Amsterdam.

  • Hermann Markard

    Hermann Markard

    Anne van Lienden, Harry Tupan (Ed.)
    Uitgeverij Wbooks, 2018
    ISBN 9789462581821
    Translation

    A retrospective of work by the artist Herman Markard. I translated the interview with Markard by Anne van Lienden.

  • Hans Eijkelboom: Photo Concepts 1970 –

    Hans Eijkelboom: Photo Concepts 1970 –

    Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Wim van Sinderen (Ed.)
    SK Stiftung Kultur, Fotomuseum Den Haag & Snoeck, 2016
    ISBN: 9783864421891
    Translation

    A retrospective of work by the renowned photographer and conceptual artist Hans Eijkelboom.

  • De kracht van het theatrale beeld / The Power of the Theatrical Image

    De kracht van het theatrale beeld / The Power of the Theatrical Image

    Peter de Kimpe, Sabien Schütte, Judith Wendel
    De Theaterschool, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, 2016
    ISBN 9789071681257
    Translation

    Reflections on scenography by leading theatre designers, initiated by the Scenography Programme of the Amsterdam Theatre School.

  • Revealing The Invisible: Art Of Stansfield/ Hooykaas

    Revealing The Invisible: Art Of Stansfield/ Hooykaas

    Revealing The Invisible: Art Of Stansfield/ Hooykaas
    Hooykaas & Van Putten (Author)
    De Buitenkant, 2015
    ISBN 9490913030; 9789490913038
    Editing

    A retrospective of the work of the celebrated Dutch artist duo Elsa Stansfield and Madelon Hooykaas. My contribution was as copy editor.

  • Sandra Kruisbrink: De verte nabij / Near distance

    Sandra Kruisbrink: De verte nabij / Near distance

    Diana Wind, Nicole Montagne
    Timmer Art Books, 2015
    ISBN: 9789462261150
    Translation

    A retrospective of the work of artist Sandra Kruisbrink with articles by writer Diana Wind and art historian Nicole Montagne.

  • Minje / Minyan

    Minje / Minyan

    Sam Drukker
    Waanders, 2014
    ISBN 9789491196935
    Translation

    A book accompanying artist Sam Drukker’s exhibition Minje/Minyan at the Jewish Historical Museum. Sam painted portraits of 10 Jewish men who had been adults during the Second World War, the last representatives of their generation. His book documents the process.

  • DOGtime Papers 2003-2014

    DOGtime Papers 2003-2014

    Frans Oosterhof (Ed.) (commissioned by Manel Esparbé i Gasca)
    Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2014
    Translation

    A large-format silk-screened newspaper accompanying an exhibition in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s five-year bachelor’s programme DOGtime, with extensive interviews and articles by the artists and teachers who had taught on the course since its foundation.

  • La conquête de l’espace

    La conquête de l’espace

    Oscar van den Boogaard
    HISK, Ghent, 2009
    ISBN: 9789079374007
    Translation

    A reflection on work at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent, Belgium.

  • Safe Pregnancy

    Safe Pregnancy

    Beatrijs Smulders & Mariel Croon
    IbisBrewster Publishing, 2005
    ISBN 1920923845

    The classic guide to pregnancy by the Netherlands’ most famous midwife, Beatrijs Smulders. The book approaches from the perspective of the strong Dutch tradition of midwifery and home birth.

    I aimed to recreate the down-to-earth, non-medical atmosphere of the language. I first read the book as an excited father-to-be, so when I was commissioned to translate it, I felt a personal connection.

In collaboration with Steve Green

Rijksmuseum Country Series (Landenreeks)

The Rijksmuseum Country Series tells the stories of the Netherlands’ shared history with eight countries, illustrated by objects in the Rijksmuseum’s collection. Steve and I collaborated on the editions on Suriname, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka and Japan.

  • Shackles and Bonds: Suriname and the Netherlands from 1600

    Shackles and Bonds: Suriname and the Netherlands from 1600

    Eveline Sint Nicolaas
    Rijksmuseum Country Series
    Vantilt Publishers, 2018
    ISBN 9460043569
    Translation

  • Good Hope: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600

    Good Hope: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600

    Martine Gosselink; Maria Holtrop; Robert Ross; Wayne Dooling; Geoffrey Badenhorst
    Rijksmuseum Country Series
    Vantilt Publishers, 2018
    ISBN 9789460043130; 9460043135
    Translation

  • The Unseen World: the Netherlands and India from 1550

    The Unseen World: the Netherlands and India from 1550

    Jos Gommans
    Rijksmuseum Country Series
    Vantilt Publishers, 2018
    ISBN: 9460043747; 9789460043741
    Translation

  • Cinnamon and Elephants: Sri Lanka and the Netherlands from 1600

    Cinnamon and Elephants: Sri Lanka and the Netherlands from 1600

    Rijksmuseum Country Series
    Lodewijk Wagenaar (Author)
    Vantilt Publishers, 2016
    ISBN: 9789460042836
    Translation

  • A Narrow Bridge: Japan and the Netherlands from 1600

    A Narrow Bridge: Japan and the Netherlands from 1600

    Rijksmuseum country series
    Jan de Hond and Menno Fitski
    Vantilt Publishers, 2016
    ISBN 9460042805; 9789460042805
    Translation

Other collaborations with Steve Green

  • Dutch Mime, Marijn van de Langen, Amsterdam University Press, 2022, ISBN 9789048558131

    Dutch Mime

    Marijn van de Langen
    Amsterdam University Press, 2022
    ISBN 9789048558131
    Translation

    The first book to document the rich history of mime in the Netherlands, which since the early 1960s has evolved far beyond its origins in literal pantomime to become an innovative genre with links to art forms ranging from performance art to sculpture, installation and film.

  • and then the doors opened again

    David Weber Krebs (Ed.)
    onomatopee Z0024, 2020
    Copy editing

    During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, 75 artists, theatre makers and scholars responded to David Weber-Krebs’ question, ‘What will happen on your first theatre visit after the lockdown?’ Steve Green and I edited their responses.

  • Jimmy Nelson: Homage to Humanity

    Jimmy Nelson: Homage to Humanity

    Jimmy Nelson
    Rizzoli International Publications, 2018
    ISBN 0847862143; 9780847862146
    Copy editing

    A book documenting indigenous cultures around the world by the celebrated photographer Jimmy Nelson. The photographs are accompanied by the inside stories of how the photographs were made.

  • The Collector’s Cabinet and Miniature Pharmacy

    The Collector’s Cabinet and Miniature Pharmacy

    Paul van Duin (Ed.)
    nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum, 2017
    ISBN 9789491714726
    Translation

    The story of the cabinet of curiosities in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, presenting the results of extensive research.

  • Beloved Burden

    Beloved Burden

    I.C. van Hout (Ed.)
    KIT Publishers (2011)
    ISBN 9068321749
    Translation
    In collaboration with Steve Green and Mark Poysden

    An exploration of different ways of baby-carrying throughout history around the world, originally published to accompany an exhibition at the Tropenmuseum at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.

  • Morocco: 5000 Years of Culture

    Morocco: 5000 Years of Culture

    Vincent Boele (Ed.)
    Lund Humphries, 2004
    ISBN 0853319162; ‎ 978-0853319160
    Translation
    In collaboration with Steve Green and Mark Poysden

    A survey of 5000 years of Morocco's cultural history as determined by its history, geography, traditions and people.

  • Behind the Scenes of Hindi Cinema: A Visual Journey Through the Heart of Bollywood

    Behind the Scenes of Hindi Cinema: A Visual Journey Through the Heart of Bollywood

    Johan Manschot and Marijke De Vos. Amsterdam
    KIT Publishers, 2005
    ISBN 10: 9068321862 ISBN 13: 9789068321869
    Editing
    In collaboration with Steve Green and Mark Poysden

    An exploration of the inner world of Bombay film.