The Day the World Turned Upside Down

About the Authors

Dutch novelist Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the author of five novels and many short stories of the fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in English, Dutch, Polish and Chinese and has been awarded the Paul Harland Prize (for best Dutch fantasy) on three occasions, received an honorable mention in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2013 for The Boy Who Cast No Shadow. In English, his short fiction has appeared from Tor.com, Oxygen Books, and PS Publishing. Recently, Jonathan Strahan selected his story “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Olde Heuvelt’s novel HEX, which became a bestseller in The Netherlands, will be out in the US and Canada with Macmillan/Tor in 2015, while Hodder & Stoughton will publish in the UK and Australia. Read more at en.oldeheuvelt.com.

Lia Belt was born in 1969 and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Originally a translator of mostly industry manuals from English and German into the Dutch language, a little over ten years ago she started translating fiction for several publishers in the Netherlands. She translates fantasy from authors such as Robert Jordan, Stan Nicholls, David Hair, and Raymond Feist for Dutch readers, but also children’s books, science fiction, young adult, and thrillers. Every now and then she also tries her hand at translating fiction into the English language for Dutch authors who want to find a wider audience for their work.