{"id":7961,"date":"2011-09-09T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2011-09-13T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T02:09:50","slug":"kind-van-de-nacht-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/kind-van-de-nacht-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKind van de Nacht\u201d Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You may recall that Kind van de Nacht<\/strong><\/em>, the Dutch edition of The Heir of Night<\/em>, was published in The Netherlands on 18 July<\/strong><\/a> by Luitingh Fantasy—and yesterday I received my author’s editions in the post.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I know I said earlier<\/a><\/strong> how much I love the treatment Luitingh have given the blue USA cover. But now I have to add that I love the treatment they have given to the book itself. It’s hardcover, which I’m old fashioned enough to think is classy, and the inside cover is this gorgeous red, with corrugated paper.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And then there’s the title page, and the map with all the place names translated into Dutch—all very cool.<\/p>\n

One of the people I will be making a point of showing this book to, and giving her a copy if she would like one, is a lady called Ria, who is both the mother of a friend, and as someone raised in The Netherlands, one of the few people I know who can actually read Dutch! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While I am not sure if Kind van de Nacht’s<\/strong> <\/em>style of epic fantasy is the kind of story Ria enjoys, a reason I would like to share the Dutch translation is because one of her stories—from her childhood memories of Holland during the German occupation of World War 2, and of her father hiding between the ivy and the roof when forced labour drives were going house to house—informs an incident that occurs in The Gathering of the Lost.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So there is a kind of symmetry in the first translation of The Wall of Night<\/strong> series being into Dutch, since there is a Dutch influence on an aspect of the story—well, I think so anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may recall that Kind van de Nacht, the Dutch edition of The Heir of Night, was published in The Netherlands on 18 July by Luitingh Fantasy—and yesterday I received my author’s editions in the post. I know I said earlier how much I love the treatment Luitingh have given the blue USA cover. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8060,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions\/8060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}