Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other
Translated by Michele Hutchison
Michele Hutchison
Michele Hutchison is an editor, translator and blogger. She translated Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening
Hutchison was born in Solihull, grew up in Lincolnshire and studied at the universities of East Anglia, Cambridge and Lyon. She worked in British publishing before moving to Amsterdam, heavily-pregnant, in 2004. There she worked as an editor and became a prominent translator of Dutch literature. She lives in a leaky, old dyke house with her Dutch husband and two children. Her collaboration with Lucas Rijneveld won the International Booker Prize 2020.
The Discomfort of Evening
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2020
- Translated by
- Michele Hutchison
- Published by
- Faber & Faber
Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other