Author

Stefan Brijs

Stefan Brijs (b. 1969) wrote his debut, De verwording (Degeneration) in 1997. His international break-through came in 2005 with his novel De engelenmaker (The Angel Maker), which earned Brijs various important nominations and literary prizes at home and abroad, including the Gouden Uil Prijs van de Lezer 2006 (Belgium), the Prix des Lecteurs de Cognac 2010 (France) and the German Euregio-Schüler-Literaturpreis 2011, awarded by pupils from Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. In 2011 De engelenmaker went to its twenty-fifth edition.

Arend

Arend

Death plays a key role in the work of Stefan Brijs. His first novel described the world of a solitary man whose two friends have died. In his second book, a fascinating collection of narrative essays, Brijs pays tribute to a series of dead authors. And in this new novel, it is only a question of time before the main character goes to meet his death.

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Angelmaker

Angelmaker

The main character in Stefan Brijs’ earlier novel Arend (2000) is a boy, fat, depressed and lonely, rejected by his peers. He is fascinated by everything that flies, eager to soar up out of his own sad existence; despairingly, he realises that he can only do so as an angel after dying. Brijs’s latest novel, De engelenmaker (‘Angelmaker), is based on similarly tragic circumstances; this time the victim is an autistic, monomaniac eccentric.

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Post for Mrs. Bromley

Post for Mrs. Bromley

The first part of Stefan Brijs’ new novel, Post voor mevrouw Bromley (Post for Mrs. Bromley), is set in North London during the early years of the First World War. Student John Patterson refuses to yield to increasing pressure of advocates and patriots – and girls – to voluntarily join the army, as his best friend Martin Bromley, with whom he grew up, has done.

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Website

http://www.stefanbrijs.be/

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