The International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has written a poem responding to the controversy that broke out after they withdrew from the job of translating Amanda Gorman’s poetry into Dutch, writing that they took the decision because they were “able to grasp when it / isn’t your place”.
Everything inhabitable: a poem by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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The non-binary author and poet had been announced by Dutch publisher Meulenhoff as the translator of Gorman’s forthcoming collection The Hill We Climb, named after the poem performed by Gorman at US president Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. But after questions were raised in the press and on social media over why the book’s translator was not, like Gorman, a “spoken-word artist, young, female and unapologetically Black”, Rijneveld said they would be pulling out of the project.

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