On Another Planet They Can Save Me

LIEKE MARSMAN is a writer and former Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, widely regarded as one of the most compelling voices in Dutch literature. She published her debut poetry collection, Things That I Tell Myself, in 2010 at the age of twenty, earning three major poetry prizes. In 2018, Marsman was diagnosed with bone cancer. Her first novel, The Opposite of a Person (2017), was longlisted for the ECI Literature Prize. The English edition, also translated by Collins, was published by Daunt Books in 2022. On Another Planet They Can Save Me was published in the Netherlands in 2025 and became an instant bestseller. Lieke Marsman lives and works in Amsterdam.

SOPHIE COLLINS is the author of Who Is Mary Sue? (Faber, 2018) and small white monkeys (Book Works, 2017). She is the translator of Lieke Marsman’s The Opposite of a Person (Daunt Books, 2022).