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Literary translation

Shimanto Reza translates literary fiction and nonfiction from Dutch into English. His translations include prizewinning authors and are forthcoming from major UK and US publishers, often with institutional support.

His work has been supported by international institutions, residencies, and festivals, including the Amsterdam and Antwerp Translators’ Houses, Crossing Border Festival in The Hague, the Dutch Foundation for Literature, and Flanders Literature.

Forthcoming

  • Safae el Khannoussi
    Oroppa
    Viking (UK) & Pantheon (US), 2027
    Winner of the Libris Prize 2025
  • Sandra Kooij & Jacqueline van de Sande Mastering ADHD for Women Transworld (UK), 2026
  • Anne-Lot Hoek
    The Battle for Bali
    Bloomsbury (UK), 2027

Works Available for Translation

Selected Dutch-language works currently available for English-language publication. Full samples and funding support available.

  • Honey Eater (Honingeter) — Tülin Erkan (Pelckmans, 2021): A novel of multilingualism, memory, and airport terminals.
  • 0xBlixa (0xBlixa) — Vincent van Meenen (Das Mag, 2023) : A novel tracing a crypto investor’s search for contact with something real.
  • The Summer When (De zomer toen) — Lieven Stoefs (Pelckmans, 2025): A novel of male friendship, fatherhood and betrayal.
  • The Red Cow (De rode koe) — Hans Depelchin (De Geus, 2025): A grotesque novel of ideas following the belated saviour of the Aryan race.

Accreditation

Shimanto Reza holds an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia, home of the British Centre for Literary Translation, and is accredited by Flanders Literature and the Dutch Foundation for Literature. He also leads translation workshops, including a student seminar at the University of Sheffield.

Editing

Shimanto Reza serves as Managing Editor at World Editions, an independent American publisher of international literary fiction. He also takes on select independent editorial projects, particularly in literary fiction and works in translation, supporting writers in the development of their manuscripts and artistic voice.

Shimanto’s help was invaluable.

— Carl Nixon, author of The Tally Stick and Nikki D.

Superb editing with razor-sharp insight and a big-hearted mind for emotion, plot and politics. Shimanto’s a dream editor and I mean it.

— Kit Fan, author of Goodbye Chinatown and Diamond Hill

Shimanto did such a thorough and thoughtful job on the Afterlight edit. His changes, comments and suggestions made such a difference to the text.

— David Doherty, International Booker longlisted translator of Dutch author Jaap Robben’s Summer Brother, You Have Me to Love and Afterlight

I greatly appreciated Shimanto’s work on The Cracks We Bear.

— Michelle Mirabella, translator of Spanish author Catalina Infante’s The Cracks We Bear

Writing

Shimanto Reza writes fiction, essays, and poetry in Dutch and English. His Dutch-language fiction has appeared in literary journals including De Revisor, DW B and Kluger Hans, and he has performed at Explore the North Festival. In English, his essays and articles have appeared in Asymptote and Lapidus.

Workshops

Shimanto Reza has developed creative writing workshops informed by relational practice, with a focus on attention, voice, and the conditions under which meaningful writing emerges. Drawing on his work as a translator, editor, and writer, these workshops explore writing as both literary craft and inquiry.

For translation, editorial, or workshop enquiries, please get in touch.