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

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

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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Personal Reflections of a Psychoanalyst

Personal Reflections of a Psychoanalyst | Hendrika Freud & Translated by Marjoiljn de JagerPersonal Reflections of a Psychoanalyst
by Hendrika Freud
Translated by Marjolijn de Jager
Selfpublished: December, 2017 … > Learn More

The Discovery of El Greco

The Discovery of EL GRECOThe Discovery of EL GRECO – The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860 – 1914) … > Learn More

Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy

Camp Life is Paradise for Freddy Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy

(Original title: Voor Fredje is het kamp een paradijs) by Fred Lanzing
Ohio University Press: Athens, OH
January 2017 … > Learn More

Black Shame: African Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1922

Black Shame: African Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1922 by Dick van Galen Last, translated by Marjolijn de Jager

Black Shame: African Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1922
by Dick van Galen Last
edited by Ralf Futselaar and Bob Moore;
Bloomsbury Academic, London: April 2015
Original Title: De zwarte schande, Published October 1st 2012 by Atlas

In Black Shame, Dick van Galen Last provides an exceptionally detailed analysis of the recruitment, deployment and reactions to African soldiers in the WWI European theatre of war. … > Learn More

My University Life

My University of Life

by Andreas Landshoff

Self-published Autobiography/Interview, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2015)

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On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead Certainties

On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead Certainties by Antonie Ladan On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead Certainties
by Antonie Ladan
Original title: Het Vanzelfzwijgende – Over psychoanalyse, desillusie en dood
Published by Routledge. London: 2014

For some years now, psychoanalysts have been trying to understand the implications of neuroscientific findings for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In On Psychoanalysis, Disillusion, and Death: Dead certainties Antonie Ladan looks at how findings from neuroscience and memory research can inform our understanding of some of the most important psychoanalytic concepts, such as transference and unconscious fantasy. … > Learn More

Gaddafi’s Harem

Gaddafi's Harem

Gaddafi’s Harem — The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
by Annick Cojean
Grove Press, New York: 2013.
Original title: Les Proies … > Learn More