One Way Ticket to Sobibor

“One Way Ticket to Sobibor” Enkele reis Sobibor by Guida Joseph, translated by Marjolijn de Jager

In 2020, Guida Joseph and Marjolijn de Jager introduced English-language readers to The Red Thread, a graphic memoir exploring the intergenerational weight of a father’s Holocaust survival and a mother’s slow decline.

The collaboration earned Joseph the Holocaust Literature Prize and established de Jager as a rare translator capable of honoring both the verbal and visual dimensions of the graphic novel form. … > Learn More

Filed Under: Art Books, Recent Translations

The Red Thread

“De Rode Draad”

The Red Thread: A Masterful Translation of Visual and Emotional Complexity

In her translation of Guida Joseph’s graphic memoir “The Red Thread,” Marjolijn de Jager demonstrates once again her remarkable ability to navigate complex emotional terrain while preserving the unique voice of the authors she translates.

This translation marks de Jager’s first venture into the graphic novel format, presenting distinctive challenges that she handles with characteristic sensitivity and precision. … > Learn More

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Recent Translations

False Alarm – Living with OCD

“False Alarm: Inside the Mind of OCD”
Author: Dr. Menno Oosterhoff, Psychiatrist
Translation: Marjolijn De Jager, PhD.
English Publisher:  To be determined

Menno Oosterhoff - Author

In her precise and nuanced translation of Menno Oosterhoff’s award-winning “False Alarm,” Marjolijn de Jager brings a Dutch bestseller on obsessive-compulsive disorder to English-speaking readers with remarkable sensitivity.

This book offers a rare dual perspective: Oosterhoff writes both as a practicing psychiatrist and as someone who has lived with OCD for four decades. … > Learn More

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The Silence of the Horizons – A Novel

The Silence of the Horizons
The Silence of the Horizons: A Novel
Author: Beyrouk
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Published by Schaffner Press Inc.

April 2025
ISBD: 9781639640683
French publisher:   Éditions Elyzad, 2021
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Milwaukee Blues: A Novel

Milwaukee Blues by Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Translated by Marjolijn de JagerMilwaukee Blues: A Novel
By Louis-Phillippe Dalembert
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Published by Schaffner Press May 2, 2023
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Pariahs: A Novel

Pariahs: A Novel by Beyrouk, Translated by Marjolijn de JagerPariahs: A Novel
By Beyrouk; Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Published by Schaffner Press April 4, 2023
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Africa Sings

Africa Sings - CD by Angelique Kidjo

Africa Sings

by Angelique Kidjo, Dennis Russell Davies, et al.

Release June, 2022

Three Ifè Songs, music by Philip Glass. Translation of Angelique Kidjo’s French lyrics by Marjolijn de Jager

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Queen of Sheba

Queen of Sheba by Angelique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf

Queen of Sheba
Angelique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf
Shore Fire Media, June, 2022

The QUEEN OF SHEBA asks King Solomon to answer the seven riddles she will give him to which King Solomon provides seven answers.

Translation of Angelique Kidjo’s seven poems in French by Marjolijn de Jager

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Oeuvre Theo Jeuken

Oeuvre Theo Jeuken, Foreword by Kirby Talley Translated by Marjolijn de JagerOEUVRE THEO JEUKEN  
Foreword by Kirby Talley; Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Published by Khatt Books: 2020

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Invisible Years

Invisible Years by Daphne GeismarInvisible Years
by Daphne Geismar
Published by David R. Godine: 2020
(Marjolijn de Jager translated the letters of Chaim de Zoete)
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