Eva Meijer

Meijer in 2018
Born	1980 (age 44–45)
Website
www.evameijer.nl

Eva Meijer (born 1980) ^[1] is a Dutch philosopher and writer.

Work

Bird Cottage creates a fictional life for the British naturalist and musician Gwendolen Howard, based on the little that is known of her. Howard studied birds in Sussex. ^[2] In Animal Languages and in When Animals Speak, Meijer argues that animals have been speaking to us all along, if only we would recognise it, and that humans should learn to understand what they are telling us, for their protection and ours. ^{[3] [4]}

Publications

• Bird Cottage. London: Pushkin, 2018, ISBN   978-1782273936. 2019, ISBN   9781782273950. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett.
• Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World. London/New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. ISBN   9780262044035. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. ^[5]
• When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ISBN   978-1479863136.
• The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression. London: Pushkin, 2021. ISBN   9781782275992. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett

References

1. Elit. "Eva Meijer". Elit. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
2. Birch, Carol (2018-09-26). "Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer review – a study in avian obsession". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-01-26.
3. Reviews of Animal Languages:
   • Nijhuis, Michelle (2020-08-20). "Buzz Buzz Buzz". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 67, no. 13. ISSN   0028-7504 . Retrieved 2025-01-26.
   • "Review: Animal Languages by Eva Meijer". The Herald. 2019-11-24. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
   • McConnachie, James (2019-11-10). "Animal Languages by Eva Meijer review — how to talk to chickens (and bats)". The Times. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
4. Reviews of When Animals Speak:
   • Tague, Gregory F. (2020). "Book review: When Animals Speak" (PDF). Animal and Natural Resource Law Review. 16: 247–53.
   • Milburn, Josh (2019). "When Animals Speak". Metapsychology Online Reviews. 23 (51).
   • Hooley, Dan (2022). "Eva Meijer, When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy". Environmental Values . 31 (5): 625–7. doi:10.3197/096327122X16569260361814.
5. "Eva Meijer: Animal Languages review - do you talk crow?". The Arts Desk . 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2025-01-26.

External links

• Official website
• Eva Meijer on Bandcamp