Niña Weijers

The Consequences

Übersetzer: Velmans, Hester

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This award-winning, raucous debut novel follows young Minnie Panis, performance artist and existentialist, as she tries to refuse success and fame.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deirdre Braud
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 146mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780997818420
• ISBN-10: 0997818425
• Artikelnr.: 47738930

Autorenporträt

Niña Weijers studied literary theory in Amsterdam and Dublin. She has published short stories, essays and articles in various literary magazines, such as Das Magazin, De Gids and De Revisor. In 2010 she won the writing competition Write Now!. She's a regular contributor to the weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer, and an editor of De Gids. Her debut novel De consequenties (The Consequences) was published in May 2014. It won the Anton Wachter Prize 2014 for best first novel, the Opzij Feminist Literature Prize, the 2014 Lucy B. & C.W. van der Hoogt Prize, and was shortlisted for the Libris Prize and the Golden Book Owl, the two most important Dutch and Flemish literary awards, the latter of which awarded her with the Reader's Choice Award. Hester Velmans was born in the Netherlands, educated in Switzerland and England, and today lives in western Massachusetts. She is a translator specializing in contemporary Dutch and French literature. Her translation of Renate Dorrestein’s A Heart of Stone won the 2001 Vondel Prize; in 2014 she was awarded a U.S. National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship to translate the neglected novelist Herman Franke. She is the author of the popular children’s books Isabel of the Whales and Jessaloup’s Song. Her new novel, Slipper (Perrault's Mistress) is forthcoming.