how the first sparks became visible

Simone Atangana Bekono was born in 1991 and studied at Creative Writing ArtEZ, graduating in 2016 with hoe de eerste vonken zichtbaar waren , a collection of poems and letters which includes the poems featured in how the first sparks became visible . This book was republished in a commercial edition by Wintertuin Uitgeverij in collaboration with Lebowski Publishers and went on to win the Poëziedebuutprijs Aan Zee, a prize for the best Dutch-language poetry debut. In the same year, Atangana Bekono also won the prestigious Charlotte Köhler Stipendium for new Dutch writers. Her first novel, Confrontatie , was published in Autumn 2020 by Lebowski Publishers. David Colmer is an Australian translator, writer and editor who lives in Amsterdam. He translates Dutch-language literature across a range of genres and has won several international prizes for his work. Recent translations include collections of the poetry of Menno Wigman and Charlotte Van den Broeck, and the classic novella An Untouched House by Willem Frederik Hermans. For The Emma Press he translated Super Guppy , a collection of poetry for children by Edward van de Vendel.