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Angelo Tijssens

Angelo Tijssens (b. 1986) is a scriptwriter, theatre maker, actor and writer. He co-wrote the films Girl (Caméra d’Or, Cannes 2018) and Close (Grand Prix, Cannes 2022), amongst others. He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

His semi-autobiographical debut novel ‘De randen’ harnesses vulnerable emotions to reflect on growing up in an environment that’s not fit for purpose, that’s ‘on the edge’. The book is nominated for the Bronzen Uil 2023 and won the jury prize at the 'Prix du Roman Gay'.

'De randen' has been translated in Spanish ('Los bordes' - Dos Bigotes), French ('Au bord' - Julliard), German ('An Rändern' - Rowohlt) and English ('The Edges' - Daunt).

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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Takiji Kobayashi

Takiji Kobayashi (小林多喜二) was a Japanese author of proletarian literature.

Kobayashi was born in Odate, Akita, Japan and was brought up in Otaru, Hokkaidō. After graduating from the Otaru School of Higher Learning, which is the current Otaru University of Commerce, he worked at the Otaru branch of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank. His most famous work is Kanikōsen, or Crab-Canning Boat – a novel published in 1929. It tells the story of several different people and the beginning of organization into unions of fishing workers. He joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1931. The young writer was killed during a torture session by Tokkō police two years later, at age 29.

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 29 November, 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian prose writer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir. The 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New Formations. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie won the prestigious Prix Décembre.

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Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel

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Annet Schaap

Annet Schaap wilde altijd al tekenaar worden, of schrijver, of ontdekkingsreizigster.

Ze studeerde aan twee kunstacademies en een schrijversschool.

Sinds 1991 illustreerde ze bijna 200 kinderboeken en is in Nederland het meest bekend door haar tekeningen bij de succesvolle Hoe Overleef Ik-serie van Francine Oomen. Maar ze illustreerde ook veel boeken van andere geliefde schrijvers, zoals Janneke Schotveld, Manon Sikkel, Jacques Vriens, Annie M.G. Schmidt en Astrid Lindgren.

Met haar Canadese man Tom en hun zoontje Jonas (2009) trok ze een paar jaar lang in een camper door Noord en Midden Amerika. Lees hier meer over hun avonturen: http://www.annetschaap.com/category/r...

Nu woont ze weer gewoon in Utrecht en tekent en schrijft om en om.

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Andrea Bajani

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David Szalay

David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is an English writer.

He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.

He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel, London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he has written two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011).

He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40 and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.

A fourth novel All That Man Is was longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2016.

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Erik Vlaminck

Erik Vlaminck is een Vlaamse roman- en theaterauteur. Hij is geboren op 2 juli 1954 in Kapellen (België).
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Erik Vlaminck is a Flemish writer.

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Benjamin Wood

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Sacha Bronwasser

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Marnix Peeters

Na een carrière bij de radio (Studio Brussel), in de rockjournalistiek (Humo, Oor) en als interviewer en reportagemaker (Het Laatste Nieuws, De Morgen) trok Marnix Peeters (°1965) zich in 2010 terug op een berg in de zuidelijke Oostkantons, waar hij aan het schrijven ging.

De eerste resultaten zagen in 2012 het daglicht: onder auspiciën van Robbert Ammerlaan verscheen toen bij De Bezige Bij zijn debuutroman, De dag dat we Andy zijn arm afzaagden. Het boek verscheen ook in het Italiaans (Il giorno che segammo il braccio a Andy).

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Lara Taveirne

Lara Taveirne schreef een thesis over liefdesverdriet. Ze schreef ook een keer een brief, waarmee ze zichzelf toegang verleende tot een vervallen sluiswachtershuis. Dertien jaar lang woonde ze onder een lek dak, verstoken van luxe en lawaai, maar dicht bij de natuur. Zo nu en dan schrijft ze ook een roman, zoals De kinderen van Calais (winnaar Debuutprijs 2015) en Wolf (longlist Libris Literatuur Prijs 2025).

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Aya Sabi

Aya Sabi (1995) is schrijver. In 2020 werd ze door NRC benoemd tot een van de literaire talenten van het jaar. Haar debuutroman Half leven werd genomineerd voor de Confituur Boekhandelsprijs, de Hebban Debuutprijs en de Opzij Literatuurprijs en won de PrixFintro Publieksprijs. In 2024 ontving Sabi de Jonge Veer en de Ultima voor Opkomend Talent.

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Lucas Rijneveld

Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991) grew up in a Reformed farming family in North Brabant before moving to Utrecht. One of the greatest new voices in Dutch literature, his first poetry collection, Kalfsvlies, was awarded the C. Buddingh' Prize for best poetry debut in 2015, with the newspaper de Volkskrant naming him literary talent of the year. In 2018, Atlas Contact published his first novel, De avond is ongemak (The Discomfort of Evening), which won the prestigious ANV Debut Prize and was a national bestseller. The UK edition won the Booker International Prize 2020. Alongside his writing career, Rijneveld works on a dairy farm.

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Manik Sarkar

Manik Sarkar (Groningen, 1973) is literair vertaler en schrijver. Zijn debuutroman Ossenkop verscheen in 2024. Hij publiceerde verhalen in o.a. Papieren Helden en Wobby. Manik vertaalde onder meer werk van Philippe Claudel, James Baldwin en Hisham Matar en is sinds een aantal jaar docent op de Vertalersvakschool.

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Safae el Khannoussi

Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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Lieselot Mariën

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Wim Oosterlinck

radio - podcast - boeken - film - wijs volk

Nieuwsbrief: https://wimoosterlinck.substack.com

In mijn podcast 'drie boeken' vertellen boekenliefhebbers over de drie boeken die je volgens hen moét gelezen hebben.

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Aleksandr Skorobogatov

Aleksandr Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russophone writers of the post-communist era. An heir to Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin and Sorokin – the surreal line of the Russian literary canon – his novels have been published to great acclaim in Russian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Greek, Serbian and Spanish. He won the prestigious International Literary Award Città di Penne for the Italian edition of Russian Gothic, which also received the Best Novel of the Year Award from Yunost. Cocaine (2017) won Belgium’s Cutting Edge Award for ‘Best Book International’. His most recent novel, Raccoon, was published by De Geus in 2020. De Tijd has called Skoro

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