Elte Rauch

writer,

publisher.

Elte Rauch is a Dutch writer and editor who divides her time between London and Amsterdam. She founded Amsterdam based Indie-Press HetMoet and is commissioning editor at London based Indie-Press The New Menard Press. She works as a literary curator in the art department at the University Medical Centre Amsterdam.

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Still from the film Writing on Water by Huw Wahl

Elte Rauch, still taken from the film Writing on Water by Huw Wahl

  • ‘Elte Rauch writes with a sense of despair and optimism, with seriousness and irony, and ultimately with hope.’

    — De Volkskrant

  • ‘Elte Rauch leads us in a stormy way into the depths of an obsessive mind. One that drifts between fantasy and reality, that uses fictionas a means of survival andcontinues to fight for its right to exist. "Johan" is a courageous book.’

    —Emma Hooff

  • 'Rauch's debut novel is a marvelous, life-affirming fictional diary.'

    — Het Parool

Selection of works

Ink, novella, forthcoming 2027 (nl/eng)

Buddhi, of het leven van Abdullah Vasu, (forthcoming 2028 (nl/eng)

Animal Nightlife - review for 3 AM magazine, 2026(eng)

Johan - novel, Cossee, August 2026 (nl)

Writing on water, film by Huw Wahl, premiered at Munster Literature & Film festival (eng)

On Being Ill, editor, preface/essay, May 2026 (eng)

Kunst als tegenkracht, essay, Boekmanstichting, 2024 (nl)

Fragmenten over pijn - uit een persoonlijke briefwisseling met Jan van Mersbergen, De Gids, 2022 (nl)

Het belang van de boeren zwaluw- over de toekomst van de literaire uitgeverij, essay, Cossee, 2022 (nl)

Een vrouw met mooie borsten,het dagboek van Veere Wachter, novel, cossee may 2023 (eng/nl)

Wind, Tide and Oar, preface/essay,

Reluctant Roots, Read my World, 2023 (eng)

‘t Wonder van ‘t Spui - short story, Pierteer en P C Boutes, Cossee, (nl)

14 Dagen aan het water - short story, magazine De Baaierd, 2021 (nl)

Een weg van dagen, editor, with Huub Oosterhuis (nl)

De zachte krachten zullen zeker winnen, editor, afterword, HetMoet 2019 (nl)

Vormen van vrede,non fiction, HetMoet, 2020 (nl)

Mahler leeft!‍ Mahler in Nederland, essay, Gustav Mahler Stichting, 2012 (nl)

For a list of all my edited and published titles, please see HetMoet (nl) and The New Menard Press (eng).