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Hi, I'm Robert de Jong
Author and book translator


I was professionally active in the world for more than 35 years and that made the world a bit of my home. If I had to describe it in one word, I would call myself a traveler.

Writing has always been something that lived in me, and I collected a lot of scripts during those years. Now that I have retired, the manuscripts are coming out. I have been converting them into stories for a few years. That works quite well, said the publishers haven't discovered me yet.

Dutch and German are the languages in which I write and mainly focus on new readers, those who want to discover reading. To stimulate that journey of discovery, I think it is important to make the story easy to read, and the themes should mainly focus on now, the time in which we live.

Translator crossed in 6 languages


Crosswise I translate books from and to: Dutch - English - German - Indonesian (Bahasa) - Norwegian (Bokmål) and Swedish.

My bookcases are mainly in Scandinavia and Central Asia. Translating books from these regions is an incredibly beautiful task. I only translate previously unpublished books and preferably from the raw manuscript. To maintain the core of a story and the atmosphere in which the story takes place, I have a lot of contact with the author during the translation.

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It's great when an author sometimes takes something from me and adapts the original manuscript. This also indicates that I sometimes improve, clarify or adjust the story without losing sight of it. Ultimately it has to be a translation.

My latest translation, which I worked on for more than 3-years, is the manuscript from the story Nordlys (Northern Lights - Noorderlicht). I translated it from Norwegian to Dutch. It was a big job, but I enjoyed it a lot. You will find the translation, which resulted in the almost 1000-page roman, alongside other translations under the tap books.
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My books and translations
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Below you will find an overview of my books and translations. Click on the image of the book to experience more about the book.

Books I write in the Dutch language

Italiaans ijs Dorp in de schaduw Dorp in de schaduw Nafil Heart Touch

Books I write the German language

Italienisches Eis Flug vom Himmel Dorf im Schatten Nafil

Books that I translated into Dutch

Vivimi Finn Patchouli Noorderlicht

Books that I translated into German

Vivimi Finn Patchouli

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