Laura van der Haar
Laura van der Haar (b. 1982) won the Dutch Poetry Slam Championship and debuted as a poet with Bodemdrang (Digging In). In 2018, her debut novel Het wolfgetal (The Wolf Number) was published to critical acclaim.
Around Four Weeks
(Podium, 2020, 160 pages)
What do you do when you’re a single parent without a social safety net and you become sick with a highly contagious virus? Laura van der Haar aptly describes this predicament in her tense, claustrophobic Covid-19 thriller.
