Martin de Haan (b. Middelburg, 1966) débuts as a novelist with Ramkoers, after giving a Dutch voice to French-language writers: major contemporary figures like Milan Kundera and Michel Houellebecq, whose complete works he has translated, but also classics like Choderlos de Laclos and Marcel Proust. He has won the 2013 Letterenfonds Translation Prize, the 2018 Filter Translation Prize and the 2018 Dr Elly Jaffé Prize for his translations.
For some years De Haan has also been active as a photographer, after attending professional masterclasses with Richard Dumas and Claudine Doury in Paris and Cosprons. The exhibition, his first in the Netherlands after two solo shows in France, where he is now based, shows three different series (‘Covid-1’, ‘Autan’ and ‘Autun – un fil infrarouge’), all linked in one way or another to Ramkoers, with as an extra a sequence of glimpses into the life (interior and portrait) of Michel Houellebecq.