Prose
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GRAND HOTEL EUROPE
(translated by Michele Hutchison)Work
Prose
2018
Golden Book, 2020Readers' Award (Trouw), 2019Best sold Durch book of 2019
Grand Hotel Europa has dominated the Dutch general bestselling list for more than an entire year. 250,000 copies have been sold so far. Grand Hotel Europa will be published in…
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QUARANTAINE
DIARY IN TIMES OF CONTAMINATIONProse
Non-fiction
2020
In the spring of 2020, the world fell prey to a pandemic due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Northern Italy was among the hardest hit areas in the world. Ilja Leonard…
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PEACHEZ
A ROMANCEProse
2017
‘The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble’ ran the headline in The New York Times in 2013, above an article about an Oxford professor of particle…
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FLASHFICTION
ULTRASHORT NOVELSProse
2017
An anthology of the ultrashort stories in Harsh Facts, One Hundred Novels (2010)
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LETTERS FROM GENOA
Prose
2016
Letters from Genoa is the natural counterpart to La Superba. It takes place largely in its title city and discusses La Superba and how it was received. However, it is…
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LA SUPERBA
(translation Michele Hutchison)Prose
2016
Libris Prize, 2014Tzumprize, 2014Inktaap Prize, 2015Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Linguistics, 2016
This novel is set in Genoa, the labyrinthine port city (nicknamed ‘the Superb’) where the author has been living for the past five years. Migration is the central theme of…
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CHARACTERS
LETTER TO MYSELF AT A YOUNGER AGEProse
2015
A short, autobiographical novel about the theft of the Characters by Theophrastus.
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FROM MELANCHOLY TO THE NIGHT
Prose
2014
A short novel situated in the ugliest city of the Netherlands (Tilburg).
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MINISTER KWIST
A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FALL OF THE LEAST KNOWN MEMBER OF THE FIRST RUTTE CABINETProse
2012
In Minister Kwist we closely follow the final days of the first Rutte cabinet. And by looking over the shoulder of the least well-known minister from that cabinet. Kwist, minister…
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HARSH FACTS
ONE HUNDRED NOVELSProse
2010
A collection of exactly one hundred very short novels, of a maximum of 500 words each.
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RUPERT, A CONFESSION
(translation Michele Hutchison)Prose
2009
Anton Wachterprize, 2002
Literatureprize Gerard Walschap, 2003Rupert has been accused of a terrible crime, and his imagined defense begins the night he met the love of his life, Mira. By turns shockingly honest, incredibly funny, and…
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REAL LIFE: A NOVEL
Prose
2006
Real Life: a Novel is a book in the tradition of Italo Calvino’s ground-breaking IF ON A WINTER NIGHT’S A TRAVELER. It is at once a gripping and enchanting story…
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HET GROTE BAGGERBOEK
Prose
2004
An astonishing and shocking literary epic about the world of dredging. You will never read anything else like this. A man who works on a dredging boat bumps into a…