De Bezige Bij represents the foreign rights of a distinguished literary catalogue, including fiction, non-fiction and essays by leading Dutch and international authors. We work closely with publishers, agents and producers worldwide to bring our books to new languages and audiences.

For any questions regarding translation, film, theatre or other subsidiary rights please contact rights director Marijke Nagtegaal via info@debezigebij.nl.

Under the name Bee Rights, we represent selected subsidiary rights for a small number of authors from other publishing houses. This concerns specific non-primary rights and is handled separately from our main catalogue.

Read our recent foreign rights guides below