Rokus Hofstede
From 15 September to 13 October 2021

Rokus Hofstede was born in 1959 in the Netherlands. He is a Dutch translator and essayist now living in Belgium. His translations of both essays and fiction include texts by Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Annie Ernaux, Régis Jauffret, and the complete writings of Pierre Michon. In 2015, in collaboration with Martin Haan, he published a new translation of Marcel Proust’s Du côté de chez Swann (Swanns kant op, Athenaeum – Polak & van Gennep). In 2019, he brought out his Dutch translation of La grande peur dans la montagne by the Swiss Romand writer C.-F. Ramuz.