Ale S. van Zandbergen
Ale S. van Zandbergen was born in 1956, the son of the local butcher in Easterlittens, a village in the Dutch province of Friesland. He works as a mathematics lecturer and since 1979 he has contributed to various magazines in the Frisian language, especially De Strikel, for which he was also an editor.
Fiction
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The Littens Fair (2013) is his debut novel. It won him the Douwe Tamminga Debut Prize and the Rink van der Velde Prize for the best Frisian prose work.