Arie Storm

Literary critic, translator and biographer Arie Storm (b. 1963) grew up in The Hague, studied Dutch and made his literary debut at the age of 31 with Hémans duik (Hémans Dive), a novel that playfully manipulates the relationship between autobiography and fiction. In the six novels that followed, Storm has continued in the tradition of his literary heroes Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth. Two of his novels – Afgunst (Envy) and Gevoel (Feeling) – have been nominated for the Netherlands’ most distinguished literary awards.

Feeling

(Prometheus, 2004, 176 pages)

In his work Arie Storm ridicules the eternal question about autobiographical reality behind novels by apparently reporting directly from his own world. His narrator’s name is invariably Arie Storm, a writer who lives with his wife and daughter in the Pijp district of Amsterdam.

Listening to Houses Breathe

(Prometheus, 2013, 159 pages)

‘The past, what was all that about?’ Welcome to Arie Storm’s seventh novel. In Listening to Houses Breathe, Storm’s alter ego, August Voois, is plunged into a deep crisis and comes face to face with a distant past with which he has yet to make peace.

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Feeling

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