DW B

{{short description|Dutch literary magazine (1900–present)}}

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DW B is the oldest literary magazine in Flanders{{cite news|title=2016 EU Prize for Literature winners announced|url=https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/creative-europe/news/20160405-eupl-winners-announced_en|access-date=7 January 2017|work=European Commission|date=5 April 2016}} that is still in print. It was first published as {{lang|nl|Dietsche Warande en Belfort}},{{cite news|title=Belgium. Maud Vanhauwaert|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/27440/Maud-Vanhauwaert|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404232459/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/27440/Maud-Vanhauwaert|url-status=usurped|archive-date=4 April 2016|access-date=7 January 2017|work=Poetry International Rotterdam}} co-founded by Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, as a merger between two earlier literary magazines, {{lang|nl|Dietsche Warande}} and {{lang|nl|Het Belfort}}. {{lang|nl|Dietsche Warande}} had been established in the Netherlands in 1855 by Joseph Albert Alberdingk Thijm, whose brother Paul had moved it to Flanders in 1887. {{lang|nl|Het Belfort}} was founded in 1886 by Jan Bols.

The goal for the foundation of these magazines was to provide a forum for (Dutch-language) Flemish authors, who until then rarely published in Dutch magazines; especially Catholic and West-Flemish authors did not feel at home in the Dutch literary milieu of the nineteenth century.

DW B is based in Brussels.{{cite web|author=Rik van Gorp|title=Gesticht |url=https://www.uitgeverijvrijdag.be/dw-b/geschiedenis|work=DW B|access-date=29 April 2020|language=French}} Christophe Van Gerrewey is one of the members of the editorial board.